'Oxford from the Meadows', Joseph Mallord William Turner

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

Oxford from the Meadows

From Rhine, Strassburg and Oxford Sketchbook

Turner Bequest LXXVII

Date 1802-3

MediumGraphite on paper

Dimensionssupport: 154 x 240 mm

Collection

Tate

Acquisition Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

Reference

D04743

Turner Bequest LXXVII 8

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Folio 8 Recto:

Oxford from the Meadows 1802–3

D04743
Turner Bequest LXXVII 8

Pencil on white wove paper, 154 x 240 mm
Inscribed probably by John Ruskin in red ink ‘8’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘LXXVII – 8’ bottom right

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

References

This general view shows, from left, Christ Church, St Mary’s, the Radcliffe Camera and Merton College. For Turner’s Oxford views in this sketchbook, beginning on Magdalen Bridge, see the Introduction to this sketchbook. Colin Harrison notes that Turner’s route seems then to have crossed to the fields on the south side of the London Road, from where he took this sketch, and up Headington Hill before descending again to Magdalen Bridge.

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David Blayney Brown
March 2004

Read this catalogue entry in full

This catalogue entry is part of: David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, December 2012.