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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Mill, Bridge and Houses among Trees, with Distant Mountains 1808

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Mill, Bridge and Houses among Trees, with Distant Mountains’ 1808
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
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A Mill, Bridge and Houses among Trees, with Distant Mountains 1808
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Turner Bequest CIII 19
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 226 x 295 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘19’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CIII 19’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The subject is unidentified, but perhaps in North Wales, drawn during Turner’s excursion into North Wales from Tabley (see Introduction to the sketchbook).
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David Blayney Brown
May 2010

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘A Mill, Bridge and Houses among Trees, with Distant Mountains 1808 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 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-mill-bridge-and-houses-among-trees-with-distant-mountains-r1134475, accessed 22 November 2024.