Pembury Mill, Kent (Liber Studiorum, part III, plate 12)
Designed and etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner British
Not on view
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.
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