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Union of the Thames and Isis ('Dorchester Mead, Oxfordshire)

J. M. W. Turner1808

Tate Britain

Tate Britain
London, United Kingdom

Turner's original title for this picture in exhibitions at his Gallery in 1808 and 1809 is commonly used today, although he showed it again in 1810 as 'Dorchester Mead, Oxfordshire'. It depicts the confluence of the Thames, or 'Isis' as it was traditionally called in its passage through Oxford, and the Thame near Dorchester.

The Thame, hardly more than a stream, is in the foreground while the Thames is glimpsed beyond the wooden bridge on the right. Modest and direct, the picture also evokes the seventeenth-century painter Aelbert Cuyp in its lighting and pastoral imagery.

Details

  • Title: Union of the Thames and Isis ('Dorchester Mead, Oxfordshire)
  • Creator: Joseph Mallord William Turner
  • Creator Death Place: London, United Kingdom
  • Creator Birth Place: London, United Kingdom
  • Date Created: 1808
  • Provenance: Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
  • Physical Dimensions: w1213 x h908 mm
  • Original Title: Union of the Thames and Isis ('Dorchester Mead, Oxfordshire)
  • Type: Painting
  • Medium: Oil on canvas

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