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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Oxford: Magdalen Tower and Bridge 1792-3

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Oxford: Magdalen Tower and Bridge’ 1792-3
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Oxford: Magdalen Tower and Bridge 1792–3
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Turner Bequest XI B
Pencil on white wove paper, 269 x 209 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Water Dark’ bottom left and ‘Magdalen Colledge [sic] Bridge’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XI B’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Two finished watercolours based on this study are known (Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester1 and private collection). Another version of this subject2 is not by Turner, but probably a copy of the Whitworth work by John Henderson, whose son bequeathed it with other drawings by his father, Turner and Thomas Girtin to the British Museum in 1878.
1
Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.308 no.69, reproduced (reproduction transposed with that for no.70).
2
Wilton 1979, pp.308–9 no.70, reproduced (reproduction transposed with that for no.69).
Verso:
Blank; inscribed in a modern hand ‘1’; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram.

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Oxford: Magdalen Tower and Bridge 1792–3 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2012, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-oxford-magdalen-tower-and-bridge-r1141333, accessed 21 November 2024.