Joseph Mallord William Turner, R.A. (1775-1851)

A mountainous Landscape, with an overshot mill and a bridge beyond

Details

Joseph Mallord William Turner, R.A. (1775-1851)
A mountainous Landscape, with an overshot mill and a bridge beyond
pencil, grey and blue wash
10.3/8 x 14.7/8 in. (26.3 x 37.8 cm.)

Provenance

John Dobbs Berger; Sotheby's London, 16 July 1981, lot 45, illustrated (£3,740).
Sotheby's New York, 23 October 1990, lot 6, illustrated.

Literature

S. Whittingham, 'Sales', Turner Studies, vol. II no. 1, Summer 1986, p. 58.
R. Upstone, 'News and Sales Record', Turner Studies, vol. II no. 1, Summer 1991, p. 59, illustrated, as circa 1794.

Lot Essay

The site of this watercolour has not yet been identified but in the general composition and the stressing of the isolated tree on the left it resembles Llanthony Abbey of circa 1794; it may therefore be a view in North Wales (see A. Wilton, Turner in Wales, exhibition catalogue, Llandudno, Mostyn Art Gallery, and Swansea, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery and Museum, July-November 1984, p. 40, no. 17, illustrated, and map on p. 34).

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