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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Oxford: Merton College Chapel from the East 1792-3

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Oxford: Merton College Chapel from the East’ 1792-3
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Oxford: Merton College Chapel from the East 1792–3
D00129
Turner Bequest XI D
Pencil on white wove paper, 243 x 214 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Merton Colledge [sic]’ lower right
Stamped in black ‘XI D’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
There are splashes of blue and grey colour at the top left. There is also a sketch on the verso (D40267).

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Oxford: Merton College Chapel from the East 1792–3 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-oxford-merton-college-chapel-from-the-east-r1141330, accessed 26 April 2024.