Graphite, watercolour and pen and ink on paper
Oxford and Other Subjects
Oxford and Other Subjects
Oxford c.1787-91
Oxford c.1787-91
Oxfordshire
Tate Collection
Works with images
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Turner Bequest
Collection
Turner owned by Tate
Catalogued Turner works on paper
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/joseph-mallord-william-turner-558" aria-label="More by Joseph Mallord William Turner" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Joseph Mallord William Turner</a>
Oxford SouthWest
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
architecture
England
England, South East
England, Southern
hill
inscriptions
landscape
Oxford - non-specific
Oxfordshire
places
symbols and personifications
title of work
townscape, distant
townscapes / man-made features
UK cities, towns and villages
UK counties
UK countries and regions
wooded
<p>Turner can have been no more than thirteen when he painted this simple prospect of Oxford from North Hinksey. Although the composition devotes over two-thirds of the available space to the sky, there is no sense of this having been sketched from nature. Rather, the way the sky is painted is typical of the often perfunctory blue and wash drawings made by most late eighteenth-century topographers, who were more concerned with the accurate representation of a specific place than with recording the transient effects of nature.</p><p><em>Gallery label, September 2004</em></p>
paper unique graphite watercolour pen ink
8 February 2013 – 13 April 2014
2014-04-13
8 February 2013 – 19 May 2013
2013-05-19
2013-02-08
Art Gallery of South Australia (Adelaide, Australia)
http://www.artgallery.sa.gov.au
4 June 2013 – 8 September 2013
2013-09-08
2013-06-04
National Gallery of Australia (Canberra, Australia)
8 October 2013 – 18 December 2013
2013-12-18
2013-10-08
Toyko Metropolitan Art Museum (Toyko, Japan)
1 January 2014 – 13 April 2014
2014-04-13
2014-01-01
Kobe City Museum (Kobe, Japan)
2013-02-08
J.M.W. Turner: Makings of a Master
Loan-out
24 September 2018 – 11 January 2020
2020-01-11
24 September 2018 – 31 December 2018
2018-12-31
2018-09-24
Higgins Art Gallery and Museum (Bedford, UK)
16 February 2019 – 1 April 2019
2019-04-01
2019-02-16
Blenheim Palace (Woodstock, UK)
15 April 2019 – 15 July 2019
2019-07-15
2019-04-15
Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum (Worcester, UK)
28 September 2019 – 11 January 2020
2020-01-11
2019-09-28
Banbury Museum (Banbury, UK)
2018-09-24
Turner: Ambitions in Architecture and the Art of Perspective
Loan-out
Oxford from the South-West
support: 364 × 511 mm
Accepted by the nation as part of the <a href="/search?gid=999999781" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Turner Bequest</a> 1856
<p>Turner can have been no more than thirteen when he painted this simple prospect of Oxford from North Hinksey. Although the <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/c/composition" title="Glossary definition for 'Composition'"><span>composition</span></a> devotes over two-thirds of the available space to the sky, there is no sense of this having been sketched from nature. Rather, the way the sky is painted is typical of the often perfunctory blue and wash <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/d/drawing" title="Glossary definition for 'Drawing'"><span>drawings</span></a> made by most late eighteenth-century topographers, who were more concerned with the accurate representation of a specific place than with recording the transient effects of nature.</p>
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architecture England England, South East England, Southern hill inscriptions landscape Oxford - non-specific Oxfordshire places symbols and personifications title of work townscape, distant townscapes / man-made features UK cities, towns and villages UK counties UK countries and regions wooded
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