'Oxford from the River Cherwell', Joseph Mallord William Turner

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

Oxford from the River Cherwell

From Rhine, Strassburg and Oxford Sketchbook

Turner Bequest LXXVII

Date 1802-3

MediumGraphite on paper

Dimensionssupport: 156 x 241 mm

Collection

Tate

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

Reference

D04795

Turner Bequest LXXVII 48 v

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Turner's sketchbooks

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Folio 48 Verso:

Oxford from the River Cherwell 1802–3

D04795

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

Pencil on white wove paper, 154 x 240 mm
Inscribed perhaps by John Ruskin in ink ‘225’ (within a circle) bottom right
Inscribed by an unknown hand in blue pencil ‘212’ lower right of centre, inverted

For Turner’s Oxford views in this sketchbook, beginning on Magdalen Bridge and apparently following a walk round the city, see the Introduction to this sketchbook. This sketch shows the Radcliffe Camera and St Mary’s near centre, Tom Tower at right. It was not visible to Finberg, the leaf having been removed from the book and laid down on a mount to display the recto (D04794) for exhibition at Oxford.

David Blayney Brown
March 2004

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