Gouache, graphite and watercolour on paper
Wilson Sketchbook
Wilson Sketchbook
Brighton and Copies from Wilson 1796-7
Brighton and Copies from Wilson 1796-7
Tate Collection
Works with images
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Turner Bequest
Wilson Sketchbook
Collection
Turner owned by Tate
Catalogued Turner works on paper
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/joseph-mallord-william-turner-558" aria-label="More by Joseph Mallord William Turner" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Joseph Mallord William Turner</a>
Interior a Forge Making Anchors
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
adults
anchor
forge
industrial and crafts
interiors
man
metalworking
objects
people
scales
scientific and measuring
society
transport: water
work and occupations
workspaces
<p>Turner filled many sketchbooks with drawings and watercolours while travelling around Britain in the 1790s. He appears to have sought out industrial subjects like the two forges shown here. One is producing anchors that were used on ships fighting in the French Revolutionary Wars. The other drawing presents in detail the workings of a tilt forge: a waterwheel powers large tilt hammers which pound iron to make it malleable.</p><p><em>Gallery label, October 2022</em></p>
paper unique gouache graphite watercolour
26 October 2013 – 14 September 2014
2014-09-14
26 October 2013 – 14 September 2014
2014-09-14
2013-10-26
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2013-10-26
The Nature of Common Life: Drawing the Everyday 1800 - 60
Collection based display
28 October 2020 – 10 July 2022
2022-07-10
28 October 2020 – 12 September 2021
2021-09-12
2020-10-28
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
17 October 2021 – 6 February 2022
2022-02-06
2021-10-17
Kimbell Art Museum (Fort Worth, USA)
http://www.kimbellart.org
27 March 2022 – 10 July 2022
2022-07-10
2022-03-27
Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, USA)
http://www.mfa.org
2020-10-28
Turner's Modern World
Exhibition
Interior of a Forge: Making Anchors
support: 113 × 93 mm
Accepted by the nation as part of the <a href="/search?gid=999999781" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Turner Bequest</a> 1856
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<p>Turner filled many sketchbooks with drawings and watercolours while travelling around Britain in the 1790s. He appears to have sought out industrial subjects like the two forges shown here. One is producing anchors that were used on ships fighting in the French Revolutionary Wars. The other drawing presents in detail the workings of a tilt forge: a waterwheel powers large tilt hammers which pound iron to make it malleable.</p>
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adults anchor forge industrial and crafts interiors man metalworking objects people scales scientific and measuring society transport: water work and occupations workspaces
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