Studio: international art (85.1923)

A LONG-LOST TURNER WATER-COLOUR

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MARFORD MILL”
PENCIL SKETCH BY
J. M. W. TURNER, R.A.

(National Gallery)

fess that he was misled by that suggestion
when cataloguing Turner's drawings and
sketches for the Trustees of the National
Gallery, though it is quite clear that he
has only himself to blame for the mistake
he made. Finding a. small sketch-book
which contained Turner's drawing from
nature of the mill represented in the Man-
chester Whitworth drawing, he catalogued
it as the “ Marford Mill Sketch-book "
(XX. Turner Bequest). As no second
edition of the u Inventory of the Drawings
of the Turner Bequest " is likely to be
called for, I am grateful to the Editor of
The Studio for giving me this oppor-
tunity to confess my error, and to beg my

fellow-students of Turner's work to make
a note that this sketch-book has nothing
to do with Marford Mill. 000
The Manchester Whitworth drawing
certainly does not represent Marford Mill.
The old mill still stands beside the high-
road between Chester and Wrexham, not
far from Rossett station, and though it has
been enlarged, partly rebuilt and altered,
the gable now facing to the front, it bears
too much resemblance to the drawing here
reproduced to admit of any doubt as to its
identification. 0000

Any doubts that might still linger are
dispelled by the presence of a pencil draw-
ing in the Turner Bequest in the margin

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