'Oxford: Kill Canon Passage, Christ Church, with Tom Tower', Joseph Mallord William Turner | Tate

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

Oxford: Kill Canon Passage, Christ Church, with Tom Tower

From Pencil Drawings of Oxford and the Home Counties

Date 1792-3

MediumGraphite on paper

Dimensionssupport: 273 x 210 mm

Collection

Tate

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

Reference

D00128

Turner Bequest XI C

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Oxford: Kill Canon Passage, Christ Church, with Tom Tower 1792–3

D00128
Turner Bequest XI C

Pencil on white wove paper, 273 x 210 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Entrance to Christ Church – from Peckwater Colledge [sic] OXON’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XI C’ bottom right

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

References

Rather than being a distinct ‘college’, Peckwater Court is the quadrangle added to Christ Church by James Wyatt, with a massive triumphal arch, Canterbury Gate, as its entrance. Turner was to make drawings of the gate in preparation for a watercolour of the building for a commission undertaken towards the end of the decade (Tate D02240, D08192; Turner Bequest XLVIII 5, CXIX E).

Verso:

Blank; inscribed in a modern hand ‘2’; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram.

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

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.

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