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WILLIAM TURNER OF OXFORD, O.W.S. (BLACKBOURTON, OXFORDSHIRE 1789-1862 OXFORD)
Leigh Wood, Clifton, Bristol
signed 'Wm. Turner/ Oxford' (lower left) and further signed, inscribed and numbered 'Scene in Leigh Woods near Clifton/ No. 5./ W. Turner' (verso) and stamped 'SocAntLondon' (verso)
pencil, watercolour and bodycolour heightened with gum arabic and with scratching out on paper
1434 x 2034 in. (37.5 x 52.8 in.)
Provenance
with Abbott & Holder, London.
Exhibited
London, Martyn Gregory, British Watercolours and Drawings 1750-1900, cat. 95, May 2016, no. 75.
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Lot Essay

Turner made regular summer sketching tours, exploring landscapes beyond his Oxfordshire home. He made a brief trip to Clifton Gorge and the River Wye in 1808 or 1809, when the present drawing must have been executed. His celebrated watercolour Wychwood Forest, Oxfordshire (Victoria & Albert Museum) was exhibited in 1809, and shares its closed, dense composition with the present sheet.
For a biographical note on the artist, please see lot 5.

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