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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1787-1801 Student and master > Architectural and Other Subjects c.1797 ... > Fonthill Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner View of Oxford from Headington Hill c.1799-1802

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘View of Oxford from Headington Hill’ c.1799-1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
View of Oxford from Headington Hill c.1799–1802
D02214
Turner Bequest XLVII 37
Pencil on white wove paper, 330 x 470 mm
Watermark ‘J Whatman 1794’
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XLVII 37’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch, made with the page turned horizontally, was used as the basis for a watercolour design for the Oxford Almanack (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford),1 engraved in 1808 (no Tate impression).
There are extensive colour tests on the verso (D41466).
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Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.334 no.302, reproduced.
Technical notes:
For a proposed sequence for the leaves of the disbound Fonthill sketchbook, with this page as folio 3, see the Introduction.

Andrew Wilton
March 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘View of Oxford from Headington Hill c.1799–1802 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2015, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-view-of-oxford-from-headington-hill-r1174218, accessed 24 April 2024.