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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Windmill on a Hill c.1806-10

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Windmill on a Hill’ c.1806-10
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 9 Recto:
A Windmill on a Hill circa 1806–10
D05736
Turner Bequest XCII 17
Pencil and white chalk on cream wove paper, prepared with a buff wash, 216 x 153 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘17’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XCII 17’ bottom right
Blind-stamped with the Turner Bequest monogram lower right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This mill is perhaps on the Playden Heights near Rye, or at Winchelsea; see also folio 10 of the sketchbook (D05737; Turner Bequest XCII 18).
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David Blayney Brown
April 2010

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘A Windmill on a Hill c.1806–10 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2010, 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/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-windmill-on-a-hill-r1131040, accessed 22 November 2024.