Water Mill (Liber Studiorum, part VIII, plate 37)
Joseph Mallord William Turner|Robert Dunkarton|Joseph Mallord William Turner
February 1, 1812 · Etching and mezzotint; first state of three (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 Dunkrton here added mezzotint to describe a half-timbered mill with adjacent cowshed, and running water wheel next to its elevated pond. In the foreground a woman carries sheaves down steps toward a pair of horses drinking in the shallow run-off. The letter "P" above the image indicates Turner's category of Pastoral landscape.
- Artist
- Joseph Mallord William Turner|Robert Dunkarton|Joseph Mallord William Turner
- Date
- February 1, 1812
- Medium
- Etching and mezzotint; first state of three (Finberg)
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1928
