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Oxford from the South-West

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Date

1787-1788?

Description

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.
Gallery label, September 2004
Medium: Graphite, watercolour and pen and ink on paper
Credit line: 'Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856'

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Location

Oxford, England

Country

England

Medium

Watercolour