Graphite and watercolour on paper
Copy-Drawings 1794-8
Copy-Drawings 1794-8
Tate Collection
Works with images
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Turner Bequest
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>
Cottages and Windmill
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
architecture
cottage
industrial
landscape
medieval
periods and styles
pool
residential
water: inland
windmill
wooded
<p>This view is typical of the topographical watercolours Turner produced in the first half of the 1790s. Although the subject has not been identified, it seems to relate to the works Turner painted as a result of a tour of Kent in 1795. Like a few others watercolours of this period, the drawing could have been made as a model for Turner's amateur pupils to copy (another example can also be found in this room). There is a substantial list in one of Turner's sketchbooks recording the names of some of his students, but he apparently did not greatly enjoy teaching. By 1797 he was making plans to abandon it in order to concentrate on his own work.</p><p><em>Gallery label, September 2004</em></p>
paper unique graphite watercolour
Cottages and Windmill
support: 274 × 195 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>This view is typical of the topographical  <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/w/watercolour" title="Glossary definition for 'Watercolour'"><span>watercolours</span></a> Turner produced in the first half of  the 1790s. Although the subject has not been  identified, it seems to relate to the works Turner  painted as a result of a tour of Kent in 1795.  Like a few others watercolours of this period, the  <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/d/drawing" title="Glossary definition for 'Drawing'"><span>drawing</span></a> could have been made as a model for  Turner's amateur pupils to copy (another example  can also be found in this room). There is a  substantial list in one of Turner's sketchbooks  recording the names of some of his students, but  he apparently did not greatly enjoy teaching.  By 1797 he was making plans to abandon it in order  to concentrate on his own work.</p>
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architecture cottage industrial landscape medieval periods and styles pool residential water: inland windmill wooded
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