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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1836-47 Modern painter > The Second Meuse-Moselle Tour 1839 > First Mossel and Oxford Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Iffley, with Church 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Iffley, with Church’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 27 Recto:
Iffley, with Church 1839
D28343
Turner Bequest CCLXXXIX 27
Pencil on white wove drawing paper, 140 x 235 mm
Inscribed in red ink ‘27’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCLXXXIX–27’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
In this drawing Turner shows the picturesque village of Iffley, which lies a few miles outside of the city of Oxford. An array of cottages, buildings and a watermill fill the foreground, interspersed with tall trees rendered in loose scalloped line. At right is the Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin, an original Norman construction dating back to 1170.1 Small jottings of what appear to be architectural detail have been drawn above the church tower.

Alice Rylance-Watson
August 2013

1
‘A Brief History’, St Mary’s Iffley, http://iffley.co.uk/architecture/visitors/, accessed 14 August 2013.

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Iffley, with Church 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-with-church-r1150624, accessed 24 April 2024.