J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1787-1801 Student and master > Midlands 1794-1802

The 1794 Midland Tour and Related Works 1794–1802

A Man Ploughing 1793 (from the Marford Mill sketchbook)

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This section comprises the Matlock and Marford Mill sketchbooks (Tate; Turner Bequest XIX, XX), used on Turner’s Midland tour of 1794, together with subsections of pencil drawings made on the tour and of watercolours of the period, including those derived directly from the tour. For the general circumstances of the tour see the introduction to the Matlock sketchbook.
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Matlock sketchbook 1794
D00207–D00234, D00237–D00259, D40749–D40751, D41421, D41432
Turner Bequest XIX 1–43
Marford Mill sketchbook c.1794–1802
D00260–D00326, D40753, D40754
Turner Bequest XX 1–44
D00327, D00328, D00330–D00344, D00347–D00354, D00358–D00366, D00369–D00372, D00377, D00378, D00402, D00403, D00405, D00662, D00664, D00670, D00672, D00691, D00693, D00699, D00700, D00703, D00729, D00861, D02375, D36562, D36581–D36583, D40040, D40041, D40235–D40238, D40271, D40335, D41456
Turner Bequest XXI A, B, D–Q, T–Z, XXII A, Aa, E–M, P–S, XXIII C, D, b, c, e, XXVII A, C, I, K, XXVIII F, H, N, O, R, XXIX X, XXXII E, LI H, CCCLXXVI 3, CCCLXXVII 11–13
This section comprises the Matlock and Marford Mill sketchbooks (Tate; Turner Bequest XIX, XX), used on Turner’s Midland tour of 1794, together with subsections of pencil drawings made on the tour and of watercolours of the period, including those derived directly from the tour.
For the general circumstances of the tour see the introduction to the Matlock sketchbook.

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

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Andrew Wilton, ‘The 1794 Midland Tour and Related Works 1794–1802’, April 2012, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/the-1794-midland-tour-and-related-works-r1140650, accessed 23 April 2024.