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Painting by J. M. W. Turner
High Street, Oxford Oil on canvas
Dimensions 68.5 cm × 100.3 cm (27.0 in × 39.5 in) Location Ashmolean Museum , Oxford
High Street, Oxford oil painting by J. M. W. Turner that was exhibited in 1810.[1]
The painting shows a view looking west along the
Carfax Tower
since the rest of the church has been demolished).
Originally, the painting was commissioned by James Wyatt . He intended to have it engraved and sold as a print at his shop, located at 115 High Street in Oxford.[2]
The painting is now exhibited at the
Heritage Lottery Fund, £220,000 from the UK
Art Fund , and £30,000 from the Friends and Patrons of the Ashmolean Museum.
[5] Thomas Malton , who taught Turner, also painted a similar painting.[6]
Similar views
High Street by the 18th-century painter
Thomas Malton .
A similar view to the painting in 1803.
View in 1820.
View in 1873.
A photographic view in the late 1890s.
View in 1899 by
Myles Birket Foster (1825–1899).
Modern photographic view.
See also References Further reading Catalog nr. 240 in the 1905 catalogue of the collection of Lady Wantage
, where the painting had been since 1875
Paintings
Interior of a Romanesque Church c. 1795 –1800)Landscape with Windmill and Rainbow c. 1795 –1800)Diana and Callisto c. 1796 )Fishermen at Sea Interior of a Gothic Church c. 1797 )Limekiln at Coalbrookdale c. 1797 )Moonlight, a Study at Millbank Aeneas and the Sibyl, Lake Avernus c. 1798 )Buttermere Lake, with Part of Cromackwater, Cumberland, a Shower Caernarvon Castle c. 1798 )Morning amongst the Coniston Fells, Cumberland Shipping by a Breakwater Tivoli and the Roman Campagna c. 1798 )View of a Town c. 1798 )Dolbadarn Castle Self-Portrait c. 1799 )View in Wales: Mountain Scene with Village and Castle – Evening c. 1799 –1800)Welsh Mountain Landscape c. 1799 –1800)A Beech Wood with Gypsies round a Campfire c. 1800 )A Beech Wood with Gypsies Seated in the Distance c. 1800 )Landscape with Lake and Fallen Tree c. 1800 )View on Clapham Common c. 1800 –1805)The Shipwreck London from Greenwich Park The Fifth Plague of Egypt High Street, Oxford Snow Storm: Hannibal and his Army Dido building Carthage, or, Dort or Dordrecht: The Field of Waterloo England: Richmond Hill, on the Prince Regent's Birthday Rome, from the Vatican The Battle of Trafalgar Port Ruysdael Chichester Canal Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus Funeral of Sir Thomas Lawrence Childe Harold's Pilgrimage - Italy The Fountain of Indolence The Golden Bough The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, 16th October, 1834 Rome, From Mount Aventine Venice, from the Porch of Madonna della Salute c. 1835 )The Fighting Temeraire Tugged to Her Last Berth Modern Rome – Campo Vaccino Slave Ship Snow Storm: Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth The Blue Rigi The Red Rigi Peace – Burial at Sea War. The Exile and the Rock Limpet Light and Colour (Goethe's Theory) – Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway Sunrise with Sea Monsters Norham Castle, Sunrise c. 1845 )Whalers c. 1845 )The Beacon Light Prints Museums Related
High Street by the 18th-century painter Thomas Malton.
A similar view to the painting in 1803.
View in 1820.
View in 1873.
A photographic view in the late 1890s.
View in 1899 by Myles Birket Foster (1825–1899).
Modern photographic view.
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