Joseph Mallord William Turner

Distant View of Oxford; Moselle View with a Church and Flying Bridge

1839

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Artist: Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of: First Mossel and Oxford Sketchbook
Medium: Graphite on paper
Dimensions: Support: 140 × 235 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference: D28345
Turner Bequest CCLXXXIX 28

Catalogue entry

The larger of the two sketches is a distant view of Oxford, drawn inversely relative to the foliation. Turner has suggested the profiles of the Radcliffe Camera, All Souls College, St Mary’s Church, and Christ Church College and Cathedral. The viewpoint is similar to Tate D28347; Turner Bequest CCLXXXIX 29.

The remaining space has been used by Turner to record a basic linear profile of the Moselle valley, with a church at the water’s edge and a bridge of boats before it.

Alice Rylance-Watson
August 2013

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