J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Switzerland 1802 > Rhine, Strassburg and Oxford Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Oxford: Magdalen Bridge and Tower, with Distant View of Merton, Christchurch Cathedral and Tom Tower 1802-3

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Oxford: Magdalen Bridge and Tower, with Distant View of Merton, Christchurch Cathedral and Tom Tower’ 1802-3
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 29 Verso:
Oxford: Magdalen Bridge and Tower, with Distant View of Merton, Christchurch Cathedral and Tom Tower 1802–3
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Turner Bequest LXXVII 29a
Pencil on white wove paper, 154 x 240 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn with the sketchbook inverted. For Turner’s Oxford views in this sketchbook, apparently following a walk round the city beginning on Magdalen Bridge, see the Introduction to this sketchbook.

David Blayney Brown
March 2004

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Oxford: Magdalen Bridge and Tower, with Distant View of Merton, Christchurch Cathedral and Tom Tower 1802–3 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2004, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-oxford-magdalen-bridge-and-tower-with-distant-view-of-merton-r1133472, accessed 26 April 2024.