Water Mill, part VII, plate 37 from "Liber Studiorum"
Designed and etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner British
Engraver Robert Dunkarton British
Publisher Joseph Mallord William Turner British
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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.
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