Joseph Mallord William Turner

Oxford: Part of Christ Church, with Tom Tower, from the Canons’ Garden

c.1798–9

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Architectural Drawings for Commissions
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 236 × 192 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D02363
Turner Bequest L V

Catalogue entry

What was originally the other half of the sheet is Tate D02364 (Turner Bequest L W), with an interior view of Christ Church Hall, and it is possible that the inscription at the lower right here refers to that drawing. Both studies were used for finished watercolour views of Christ Church commissioned by Lord Stormont, later Earl of Mansfield, an alumnus of the college. Other subjects for Mansfield are based on studies in the South Wales sketchbook (Tate D00659; Turner Bequest XXVI 97) and the Smaller Fonthill sketchbook (Tate D02240; Turner Bequest XLVIII 5).
Verso:
Blank; inscribed by a later hand in pencil ‘Ch. Ch’; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram.

Andrew Wilton
March 2013

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