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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1836-47 Modern painter > The Second Meuse-Moselle Tour 1839 > First Mossel and Oxford Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Two Views of Oxford from North Hinksey 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Two Views of Oxford from North Hinksey’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 22 Verso:
Two Views of Oxford from North Hinksey 1839
D28334
Turner Bequest CCLXXXIX 22 a
Pencil on white wove drawing paper, 140 x 235 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These two slight sketches were taken from the opposite side of the city to Headington Hill (see Tate D28304, D28324, D28325; Turner Bequest CCLXXXIX 7a, 17a, 18) from the village of North Hinksey. The drawing essentially represents the same prospect as is depicted in the highly finished watercolour Oxford, from North Hinksey of 1834–40 (Manchester City Galleries) and in a more abstract rendering of the view produced between 1837 and 1840 (Tate D25220; Turner Bequest CCLXIII 98).1 Turner scholar Eric Shanes proposes that the latter of these colour drawings was derived from the following pencil studies of Oxford in the First Mossel and Oxford sketchbook: Tate D28331–D28333, D28336–D283341; Turner Bequest CCLXXXIX 21–22, 23a–26.2

Alice Rylance-Watson
August 2013

1
Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.404 no.889.
2
Shanes 1997, p.87 no.80.

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Two Views of Oxford from North Hinksey 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-two-views-of-oxford-from-north-hinksey-r1150615, accessed 20 September 2024.