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WILLIAM TURNER OF OXFORD, O.W.S. (BLACKBOURTON, OXFORDSHIRE 1789-1862 OXFORD)
WILLIAM TURNER OF OXFORD, O.W.S. (BLACKBOURTON, OXFORDSHIRE 1789-1862 OXFORD)
WILLIAM TURNER OF OXFORD, O.W.S. (BLACKBOURTON, OXFORDSHIRE 1789-1862 OXFORD)
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WILLIAM TURNER OF OXFORD, O.W.S. (BLACKBOURTON, OXFORDSHIRE 1789-1862 OXFORD)

'The Long Bridge': Wolvercote Bridge, near Oxford

Details
WILLIAM TURNER OF OXFORD, O.W.S. (BLACKBOURTON, OXFORDSHIRE 1789-1862 OXFORD)
'The Long Bridge': Wolvercote Bridge, near Oxford
pencil and watercolour, heightened with bodycolour on blue paper
9 x 14 7⁄8 in. (23 x 37.8 cm.)
Provenance
Elizabeth, Mrs Baker Morrell (neé Chapman) (1781-1861), and by descent to her grandson
Frederick Morrell; Knight, Frank & Rutley, Black Hall, Oxford, 28 April 1925, lot 163, where bought back by the family,
and by descent to the present owners.

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Lot Essay

Wolvercote is a small village to the north of Port Meadow and the Long Bridge spanned a branch of the Thames which supplied the mill stream. Stylistically Turner's view dates from the 1830s or 40s.

We are grateful to Timothy Wilcox for his help in preparing this catalogue entry.

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