Not on display
- Artist
- Randolph Schwabe 1885–1948
- Medium
- Watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- Support: 565 × 387 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Purchased 1942
- Reference
- N05371
Catalogue entry
N05371 THE RADCLIFFE OBSERVATORY, OXFORD 1942
Inscr. ‘R. Schwabe Oxford 1942’ b.r.
Watercolour, 22 1/4×15 1/4 (56×38).
Purchased from the artist (Knapping Fund) 1942.
Exh: Arts Council, London and tour, January–July 1951 (26).
The Observatory behind the Radcliffe Infirmary was built at the end of the eighteenth century with funds bequeathed by Dr John Radcliffe (1650–1714), physician to William III and Mary II. He left his library and most of his property to the University.
Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, II
You might like
-
Randolph Schwabe High Street, Hampstead
1928 -
Edgar Rowley Smart Pinewoods under the Snow
1934 -
Anthony Gross Burgundy Canal
1937 -
Julian Trevelyan Outside Kampala
1966 -
Stephen Bann Orange
1964 -
Stephen Bann Fleece
1967 -
Nigel Henderson Stressed Photograph
c.1950 -
Roger Mayne End of a Sunday market, Southwark
1954 -
Sir Eduardo Paolozzi Fisherman and Wife
1946 -
Cliff Holden Yellow Seated Figure
1947 -
Lawrence Atkinson The Lake
c.1915–20 -
Sir Stanley Spencer Study for ‘Christ Carrying the Cross’
1920 -
Richard Hamilton Hommage à Chrysler Corp.
1957
