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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Oxford 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Oxford’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 18 Verso:
Oxford 1839
D28326
Turner Bequest CCLXXXIX 18 a
Pencil on white wove drawing paper, 140 x 235 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Rendered carefully with fine, precise line this study of Oxford incorporates, from left to right: Christ Church Cathedral and Christ Church College; Merton College and its Chapel Tower, Magdalen College Tower, All Souls College, the University Church of St Mary the Virgin and the dome of the Radcliffe Camera.
For other views of Oxford in this sketchbook see Tate D28304, D28324, D28325, D28340, D28345, D28347–D28349; Turner Bequest CCLXXXIX 7a, 17a, 18, 25a, 28, 29–30.

Alice Rylance-Watson
August 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Oxford 1839 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, August 2013, 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/joseph-mallord-william-turner-oxford-r1150607, accessed 26 April 2024.