In Tate Britain
Prints and Drawings Room
View by appointment- Artist
- Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
- Part of
- Oxford and Other Subjects
- Medium
- Pen and ink and watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- Support: 374 × 532 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
- Reference
- D00048
Turner Bequest III C
Display caption
The two vanishing points for the sides of the building are just visible (see photograph). However, Turner did not use a full method of perspective to locate these points. In fact, they are at different heights, whereas they should both be on the horizon.
Gallery label, September 2004
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Catalogue entry
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Joseph Mallord William Turner Folly Bridge and Bacon’s Tower, Oxford
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Joseph Mallord William Turner Study of a Group of Buildings, with a Paling Fence: Lacy’s Court, Bath Street, Abingdon
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c.1789 -
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c.1789 -
Joseph Mallord William Turner Nuneham Courtenay: The House and Park Looking towards Oxford
c.1789 -
Joseph Mallord William Turner The Lodge and Gate of Radley Hall, Abingdon Road Entrance, with Part of the Park
c.1789 -
Joseph Mallord William Turner Distant View of Oxford from the Abingdon Road (Oxford from South Hinksey)
1789 -
Joseph Mallord William Turner Oxford from the South-West
?1787–8 -
Joseph Mallord William Turner Radley Hall from the South-East
1789 -
Joseph Mallord William Turner Sunningwell Church from the North-East
c.1789 -
Joseph Mallord William Turner Trees and Wall at Cote House
1791 -
Joseph Mallord William Turner Malmesbury Abbey from the North-West
1791 -
Joseph Mallord William Turner The Avon near Wallis’s Wall
1791 -
Joseph Mallord William Turner View in the Avon Gorge
1791
