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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Nuneham Courtenay: The House and Park Looking towards Oxford c.1789

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Nuneham Courtenay: The House and Park Looking towards Oxford’ c.1789
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 15 Verso:
Nuneham Courtenay: The House and Park Looking towards Oxford c.1789
D40740
Pencil and watercolour on white laid paper, 160 x 249 mm
Stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom centre
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The landscape study is an extension of the drawing on folio 16 recto (D00030). There are colour trials in red, yellow and blue at the lower left. This page is not listed in Finberg’s 1909 Turner Bequest catalogue.1

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

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See A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.I, p.4.

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Nuneham Courtenay: The House and Park Looking towards Oxford c.1789 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2012, 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-nuneham-courtenay-the-house-and-park-looking-towards-oxford-r1140184, accessed 25 April 2024.