Pembury Mill, Kent (Liber Studiorum, part III, plate 12)
Joseph Mallord William Turner|Charles Turner
June 10, 1808 · Etching and mezzotint; first state of four (Finberg) · Drawings and Prints
Turner distilled his ideas about landscape In "Liber Studiorum" (Latin for Book of Studies), a series of seventy prints plus a frontispiece published between 1807 and 1819. To establish the compositions, he made brown watercolor drawings, then etched outlines onto copper plates. Professional engravers usually developed the tone under Turner's direction, and Charles Turner here added mezzotint to describe a rustic mill with bright sunlight drawing attention to a man inside filling sacks with flour. Outside, fellow workers load a cart while a dog sleeps in the foreground near a dripping waterwheel and dovecote. The letter "P" in the upper margin indicates Turner's category of Pastoral landscape.
- Artist
- Joseph Mallord William Turner|Charles Turner
- Date
- June 10, 1808
- Medium
- Etching and mezzotint; first state of four (Finberg)
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1928
