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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Oxford from Heddington Hill 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Oxford from Heddington Hill’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 18 Recto:
Oxford from Heddington Hill 1839
D28325
Turner Bequest CCLXXXIX 18
Pencil on white wove drawing paper, 140 x 235 mm
Inscribed in red ink ‘18’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCLXXXIX–18’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Orientated inversely relative to the foliation, this sketch shows the city of Oxford taken from Headington Hill. The view is similar to that on the folio opposite (Tate D28324; Turner Bequest CCLXXXIX 17a), however more of the skyline is suggested. The dome of the Radcliffe Library can be seen at right followed by the University Church of St Mary, All Souls College, Magdalen College, the cathedral and Christ Church College.
For other views of Oxford in this sketchbook see Tate D28304, D28324, D28326, D28340, D28345, D28347–D28349; Turner Bequest CCLXXXIX 7a, 17a, 18a, 25a, 28, 29–30; see also A View of Oxford from the South Side of Heddington Hill, 1803–4 (Ashmolean Musem, Oxford).1

Alice Rylance-Watson
August 2013

1
Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.334 no.302; this drawing is also reproduced in colour in Colin Harrison, Turner’s Oxford, exhibition catalogue, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford 2000, p.27 fig.19, no.48a.

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Oxford from Heddington Hill 1839 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, August 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, November 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-oxford-from-heddington-hill-r1150606, accessed 19 April 2024.