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 Distant View of Oxford 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Distant View of Oxford’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 26 Recto:
Distant View of Oxford 1839
D28341
Turner Bequest CCLXXXIX 26
Pencil on white wove drawing paper, 140 x 235 mm
Inscribed in red ink ‘26’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCLXXXIX–26’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This swift and summary sketch, left largely undeveloped, shows the skyline Oxford from the village of North Hinksey. For a similar panorama of the city see Tate D28331–D28334, D28336–D28340; Turner Bequest CCLXXXIX 21–22a, 23a–25a.
Technical notes:
There is some buckling and discolouration of the paper which runs horizontally from the centre of the gutter of the book to the centre of the sheet.

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-r1150622, accessed 20 April 2024.