(SOLD) Battersea, St. Mary’s Church and The Malt Mill.

Watercolour with pen & ink on paper.

SOLD

An interesting early 19th century view of Battersea showing St. Mary’s Church and Thomas Fowler’s Malt Mill.

The Malt Mill was an imposing white tower housing a forty-metre-high machine comprising horizontal ‘floats, as in the wheel of a water-mill’ which when the shutters were opened turned to generate power’1. Fowler used the mill to crush linseed before, in 1792, it was annexed to the extensive adjacent maltings and distillery owned by John Hodgson and was put to use grind corn and malt. While the horizontal windmill attracted much interest for its ingenuity, it is unclear how effective it actually was, and the fact that Hodgson purchased a steam engine in the 1790s suggests he needed an additional source of power for his distillery. The tower was dismantled in 1827, having become unstable. (TATE Gallery)

J.M.W. Turner painted the same Mill and Church in around 1797.

Battersea Church and Bridge, with Chelsea Beyond ?1797 Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775-1851
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/work/D00857
Image released under Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED

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Condition

In good condition consistent with age. There is some unobtrusive acidic discolouration and one or two minor fox marks visible in the sky. The paper is slightly softened. The verso contains surface dirt and a variety of old stains, many of which are studio marks.

  1. (Daniel Lysons, The Environs of London, vol.1, London 1792, p.47) ↩︎