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 16 Recto:
Nuneham Courtenay: The House and Park Looking towards Oxford c.1789
D00030
Turner Bequest II 16
Pencil on white laid paper, 160 x 249 mm
Inscribed by Turner ‘Tuscan | Ionic’ bottom right
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘16’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘II 16’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The drawing continues a little way across folio 15 verso (D40740).
Verso:
Blank; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram; slight colour trials at bottom right.

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

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-r1140185, accessed 25 April 2024.