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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Distant View of Oxford 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Distant View of Oxford’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 23 Verso:
Distant View of Oxford 1839
D28336
Turner Bequest CCLXXXIX 23 a
Pencil on white wove drawing paper, 140 x 235 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These slight and undeveloped sketches are two distant views of Oxford taken from the village of North Hinksey, which lies west of the city. See also Tate D28331–D28334, D28337–D283341; Turner Bequest CCLXXXIX 21–22a, 24–26.

Alice Rylance-Watson
August 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Distant View of 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-distant-view-of-oxford-r1150617, accessed 20 September 2024.