Pembury Mill, Kent (Liber Studiorum, part III, plate 12)

Joseph Mallord William Turner

June 10, 1808 · Etching · 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. Here we see the outlines of a design devoted to a rustic mill with 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.

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner

Date

June 10, 1808

Medium

Etching

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Rogers Fund, 1962