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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Oxford: Kill Canon Passage, Christ Church, with Tom Tower 1792-3

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Oxford: Kill Canon Passage, Christ Church, with Tom Tower’ 1792-3
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Oxford: Kill Canon Passage, Christ Church, with Tom Tower 1792–3
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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
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

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Oxford: Kill Canon Passage, Christ Church, with Tom Tower 1792–3 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2012, 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-kill-canon-passage-christ-church-with-tom-tower-r1141334, accessed 26 April 2024.