Oil on paper
Literary and Other Subjects and Copies
Literary and Other Subjects and Copies
London, Oxford and the Home Counties c.1791-3
London, Oxford and the Home Counties c.1791-3
Tate Collection
Works with images
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Turner Bequest
Collection
Turner owned by Tate
Catalogued Turner works on paper
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A Watermill
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
adults
architecture
figure
industrial
people
river
tree
water: inland
watermill
<p>Turner began exhibiting watercolours at the Royal Academy in 1790. This is probably his first surviving landscape in oils, and may date from a little earlier than suggested above; the rather mannered trees resemble those in some 1791 watercolours of Bristol. Watermills were being overtaken by steam power at this time, and this ‘Picturesque’ example may be largely from Turner’s imagination, like the one in his contemporary oval watercolour of a scene from <i>Don Quixote</i>. The painting was originally set on a rectangular wash-line mount, more typically used for watercolours. Parts of its decorative border are still visible.</p><p><em>Gallery label, February 2010</em></p>
paper unique oil
A Watermill
support: 260 × 319 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
<p>Turner began exhibiting watercolours at the Royal Academy in 1790. This is probably his first surviving landscape in oils, and may date from a little earlier than suggested above; the rather mannered trees resemble those in some 1791 watercolours of Bristol. Watermills were being overtaken by steam power at this time, and this ‘Picturesque’ example may be largely from Turner’s imagination, like the one in his contemporary oval watercolour of a scene from <i>Don Quixote</i>. The painting was originally set on a rectangular wash-line mount, more typically used for watercolours. Parts of its decorative border are still visible. 
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