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Quarries at Shotover, near Oxford (recto)

Maker

(artist)
1789-1862

Title

Date of Production

circa 1816

Medium

graphite, watercolour and bodycolour (recto), graphite (verso), on blue wove paper

Dimensions

Height: 24.7 cm
Width: 44.1 cm

Accession Number

D.1967.WS.97

Mode of Acquisition

William Wycliffe Spooner, bequest, 1967

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

Label Text

Around 1812 William Turner established himself as a drawing master in his native Oxfordshire. He had earlier studied with John Varley who encouraged him to work from nature out of doors. This watercolour of the quarries at Shotover, three miles east of Oxford, was probably made on the spot. The informal nature of the sketch is reinforced by the panoramic format, shorn of any flanking elements. Strong white and green bodycolour in the foreground contrasts with the paler watercolour in the sky.

Provenance

William Wycliffe Spooner, Ilkley (1882-1967); Spooner Bequest 1967

Exhibition History

British Watercolours from the Spooner Collection, Huntington Museum and Art Gallery, Los Angeles, 12/02/2005-15/05/2005

British Watercolours from the Spooner Collection, Huntington Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 12/02/2005-15/05/2005; Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere, 18/07/2005-23/10/2005; Hermitage Rooms, Somerset House, London, 16/11/2005-12/02/2006

Literature

The Spooner Collection of British Watercolours, Courtauld Institute Galleries; Huntington Library; Wordsworth Trust, 2005-06
cat. no. 71
ill. on p. 215

Inscriptions

Inscription: Support (removed, now in object file), Recto: lower right edge, pen and light brown ink: Quarries at Shotover Hill - near Oxford about 1816 Showing the Roman Road / in the Iron Sand 1 / The Kimmeridge Clay - 2 / The Oolite - 3 .

Inscription: Support (removed, now in object file), Recto: lower right, graphite: W.Turner of Oxon.

Inscription: Support (removed, now in object file), Recto: lower left, graphite: 9 1/2 x 17 1/4.

Inscription: Support (removed, now in object file), Recto: right centre edge, graphite, cut off: Iron Sand / Roman / Kimmer[...] / Clay / Oolite .

Inscription: Support (removed, now in object file), Verso: right centre, graphite, circled: 9029.

Inscription: Support (removed, now in object file), Verso: lower left, graphite: i/-/-.

Inscription: Support (removed, now in object file), Verso: lower right, graphite: £0.

Inscription: Support (removed, now in object file), Verso: lower right edge, graphite, cut off: 15.

Inscription: Mount (removed, cut down, now in object file), graphite: Quarries at Shotover Hill Oxford W. Turner of Oxford..

Inscription: Mount (removed, cut down, now in object file), left, graphite: 45 / 27 / 729:12 .

Collector's mark: none.

Label: Support (removed, now in object file), Recto: upper left corner, printed in black and written in pen and blue ink: THE FINE ART SOCIETY, LTD / 148 NEW BOND STREET, LONDON, W.1 / ESTABLISHED 1876 / TITLE Quarries at Shotover Hill Ox'on. / Water colour by. / ARTIST William Turner of Oxford. / NO. DATE Nov 1959. .

Watermark: none.

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