Catalogued in the George Hibbert sale at Christie's on 13 June 1829 (24), where it was bought back by Turner for £120.15.0, as 'Abingdon, taken from the River - Cattle cooling themselves, Group of Lighters in half-distance, figures loading a Timber Waggon on right Bank, Sultry Sun in Mist', and listed in the schedule of the Turner Bequest as 'Abingdon', this picture nevertheless seems to be the otherwise lost ‘Dorchester Mead' exhibited by Turner at his own gallery in 1810. The title is somewhat misleading in that Dorchester Mead is some two miles from Abingdon church, the spire of which is seen in the distance, but not much more perverse than the title of the picture to which it may well have been intended as the companion, 'Slough', exhibited the year before (No.156). There is a pencil sketch in the 'Hesperides (2)' sketchbook (T.B.XCIV-4v, repr. Wilkinson 1974, p.74).