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 Distant View of Oxford 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Distant View of Oxford’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 29 Verso:
Distant View of Oxford 1839
D28348
Turner Bequest CCLXXXIX 29 a
Pencil on white wove drawing paper, 140 x 235 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This panoramic view of Oxford, rendered swiftly in crisp line, appears to have been taken from a point close to the location of two previous sketches: Tate D28345, D28347; Turner Bequest CCLXXXIX 28, 29. The view continues onto the folio opposite (Tate D28349; Turner Bequest Turner Bequest CCLXXXIX 30).

Alice Rylance-Watson
August 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Distant View of 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-distant-view-of-oxford-r1150629, accessed 19 September 2024.