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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner Iffley Church, near Oxford 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 20 Recto:
Iffley Church, near Oxford 1839
D28329
Turner Bequest CCLXXXIX 20
Pencil on white wove drawing paper, 140 x 235 mm
Inscribed in red ink ‘20’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCLXXXIX–20’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn inversely relative to the foliation, here Turner has made a study of the village of Ifley in Oxfordshire with the Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin at centre. The church is recorded elsewhere in this sketchbook at Tate D28323, D28328, D28343; Turner Bequest CCLXXXIX 17, 19a, 27. There is also a slight undeveloped jotting above the foliation details.

Alice Rylance-Watson
August 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Iffley Church, near Oxford 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-iffley-church-near-oxford-r1150610, accessed 28 March 2024.