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 > Welsh, Isle of Wight and Other Subjects > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Llandowror Mill c.1795

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Llandowror Mill’ c.1795
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Llandowror Mill c.1795
D00687
Turner Bequest XXVIII B
Pencil and grey wash on white wove paper, 415 x 255 mm
Stamped in black ‘XXVIII B’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is based on a drawing in the South Wales sketchbook (Tate D00592; Turner Bequest XXVI 38). It is probably the beginning of the drawing commissioned by Mr Laurie (see the list of ‘Order’d Drawings’ near the front of the South Wales book, Tate D40557). The sheet size is almost identical to that of Tate D00688 (Turner Bequest XXVIII C), which seems to have been begun in the same way, with a lay-in of grey colour, but in that instance Turner has added local colour, missing from this ébauche. It is noteworthy that he uses here the traditional eighteenth-century watercolour procedure of grey dead-colouring, which was to be superseded in his work (and that of his friend Thomas Girtin, (1775–1802) in the next year or two.
Verso:
Blank; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram; some stains; inscribed in a modern hand in pencil ‘23’.

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Llandowror Mill c.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-llandowror-mill-r1141189, accessed 21 November 2024.