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Joseph Mallord William Turner Distant View of Oxford from North Hinksey c.1789

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Distant View of Oxford from North Hinksey’ c.1789
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Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 7 Recto:
Distant View of Oxford from North Hinksey c.1789
D00017
Turner Bequest II 7
Pencil on white laid paper, 160 x 249 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘7’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘II 7’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The drawing is continued on folio 6 verso (D40739). It is the study on which a finished watercolour (Tate D00046; Turner Bequest III A) is based.

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Distant View of Oxford from North Hinksey c.1789 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2012, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, December 2012, http://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-distant-view-of-oxford-from-north-hinksey-r1140171, accessed 22 May 2013.