Cornish Cornmill
Artist
Thomas Rowlandson
(English, 1756 - 1827)
Datelate 18th-early 19th century
MediumWatercolor drawing
DimensionsOverall: 11 1/8 × 5 1/2 inches (28.26 × 13.97 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number33-1394
Signedl.r. corner (in brown ink): "T. Rowlandson"
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DescriptionA sunlit scene by the bank of a river; to left in the foreground is a stream tumbling down from the hills between huge boulders to join the main river; several figures nearby with tubs. Further back is the mill structure, driven by water power conveyed by a wooden trough from the hillside; beneath is the miller and his horse, and behind is a little cottage. The background consists of wooded hills and the river spanned by an ancient bridge with pointed arches.Exhibition HistoryN/A
With Joseph Grego (1843-1908), London, by 1908;
With Frank T. Sabin, London, by 1933;
Purchased from Frank T. Sabin by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1933.
Joseph Grego, Rowlandson the Caricaturist: A Selection from his Works with Anecdotal Descriptions of his Famous Caricatures and a Sketch of his Life, Times, and Contemporaries, vol. 2 (London: 1880), 423, as Cornmill, Cornwall.
V. Philip Sabin, A Catalogue of Watercolour Drawings by Thomas Rowlandson (London: F.T. Sabin, 1933), 85, 88, (repro.).
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