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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1979.145
People
Joseph Mallord William Turner, British (London, England 1775 - 1851 Chelsea, England)
Title
Withyham Mill, Sussex
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1795
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/295225

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
20.4 x 12.8 cm (8 1/16 x 5 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso of mount, upper right, graphite: Withyham Mill, Sussex / Pencil drawing by JMW Turner / 1775-1851 / Bot of Colnaghi London 6/63 for £70-100 / pd. by P.H.
  • inscription: verso of mount, upper right, graphite: FLH / 125 [inventory number , Frances L. Hofer's collection] / 252

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Charles Stokes.
Thomas Hughes.
Mrs. F. Hughes, Wallfield, Reigate, Surrey, from her uncle, Thomas Hughes. per Sotheby's, London, Nov. 28, 1922
Sotheby's, London, from Mrs. F. Hughes, sold at auction, 1922. Sale, November 28, 1922, lot 147.
P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. Ltd., London, sold to Philip Hofer, 1963. Date of sale, June 1963.
Philip and Frances L. Hofer, Cambridge, Massachusetts; bequest of Frances L. Hofer, 1979

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Frances L. Hofer
Accession Year
1979
Object Number
1979.145
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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