Joseph Mallord William Turner

Oxford: Magdalen Tower and Bridge

1792–3

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Artist: Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of: Pencil Drawings of Oxford and the Home Counties
Medium: Graphite on paper
Dimensions: Support: 269 × 209 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference: D00127
Turner Bequest XI B

Catalogue entry

Two finished watercolours based on this study are known (Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester 1 and private collection). Another version of this subject 2 is not by Turner, but probably a copy of the Whitworth work by John Henderson, whose son bequeathed it with other drawings by his father, Turner and Thomas Girtin to the British Museum in 1878.

Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.308 no.69, reproduced (reproduction transposed with that for no.70).

Wilton 1979, pp.308–9 no.70, reproduced (reproduction transposed with that for no.69).

Verso:

Blank; inscribed in a modern hand ‘1’; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram.

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

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