J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Switzerland 1802 > Rhine, Strassburg and Oxford Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Distant View of Oxford 1802-3

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Distant View of Oxford’ 1802-3
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 47 Recto:
Distant View of Oxford 1802–3
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Turner Bequest LXXVII 47
Pencil on white wove paper, 154 x 240 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘47’ bottom right
Inscribed by an unknown hand in ink ‘227’ (within a circle) bottom right
Stamped in black ‘LXXVII – 47’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
For Turner’s Oxford views in this sketchbook, beginning on Magdalen Bridge and apparently following a walk round the city, see the Introduction to this sketchbook. This distant view shows Magdalen tower, the Radcliffe Camera, St Mary’s, and Merton chapel.

David Blayney Brown
March 2004

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Distant View of Oxford 1802–3 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2004, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-distant-view-of-oxford-r1133496, accessed 18 April 2024.