Joseph Mallord William Turner

View of Oxford from Headington Hill

c.1799–1802

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Artist: Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Medium: Graphite on paper
Dimensions: Support: 330 x 433 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference: D02214
Turner Bequest XLVII 37

Catalogue entry

This sketch, made with the page turned horizontally, was used as the basis for a watercolour design for the Oxford Almanack (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford),1 engraved in 1808 (no Tate impression).

There are extensive colour tests on the verso (D41466).

Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.334 no.302, reproduced.

Technical notes:

For a proposed sequence for the leaves of the disbound Fonthill sketchbook, with this page as folio 3, see the Introduction.

Andrew Wilton
March 2013

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