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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Oxford: Folly Bridge, Seen from the North-West 1797-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Oxford: Folly Bridge, Seen from the North-West’ 1797-8
Oxford: Folly Bridge, Seen from the North-West 1797–8
D02360
Turner Bequest L S
Pencil on white wove paper, 207 x 266 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘[?Mortar]’, ‘[?Lath]’, ‘[?Silver]’, ‘Y’, ‘S’ and ‘DS’ at various points in the drawing
Inscribed in red ink ‘L.S.’ bottom right
Stamped in black ink ‘L – S’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Compare Tate D01879 (Turner Bequest XLIV C), showing the diametrically opposite view. For the dating of this drawing and contemporary views in the Oxford area, see under Tate D02358 (Turner Bequest L Q).
Technical notes:
The sheet has been folded vertically down the centre. It is one of a sequence of sixteen Yorkshire and other subjects included in the present subsection which were executed on uniform sheets of paper, as discussed and listed in the Introduction.
A note of the subject is inscribed on the verso (D40194), where there are also some paint smears.

Andrew Wilton
January 2013

Revised by Matthew Imms
November 2020

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Oxford: Folly Bridge, Seen from the North-West 1797–8’, catalogue entry, January 2013, revised by Matthew Imms, November 2020, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, November 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/oxford-folly-bridge-seen-from-the-north-west-r1150290, accessed 31 July 2026.