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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1787-1801 Student and master > Wales and Isle of Wight 1795-1800 > Isle of Wight Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Bembridge Mill, Isle of Wight, with a View West towards Brading Haven 1795

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Bembridge Mill, Isle of Wight, with a View West towards Brading Haven’ 1795
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 51 Recto:
Bembridge Mill, Isle of Wight, with a View West towards Brading Haven 1795
D00458
Turner Bequest XXIV 49
Pencil and watercolour on white wove paper, 204 x 264 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Nunwell & Brading from Bembridge Mill’ bottom centre
Stamped in black ‘XXIV 49’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner evidently drew this subject, and elaborated it in delicate colour, for an ‘Order’d Drawing’; see the list on the flyleaf (D41250). No finished view of Bembridge Mill is known, however. Turner seems to have indicated the presence of an obelisk on the hill in the right distance. An obelisk does indeed stand there today; but it has been there only since 1849, when it was erected in honour of the 1st Earl of Yarborough, of Appuldurcombe (see folio 37 recto; D00444; Turner Bequest XXIV 36).
The drawing was made with the page turned horizontally.
Verso:
Blank; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram.

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Bembridge Mill, Isle of Wight, with a View West towards Brading Haven 1795 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, 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/joseph-mallord-william-turner-bembridge-mill-isle-of-wight-with-a-view-west-towards-r1141036, accessed 03 January 2025.