Object number1883.2.5
Scholastic England, Oxford
Portfolio/SeriesFifth in the series History of England
Date1882
Artist
William Trost Richards
(American, 1833-1905)
CultureAmerican
MediumWatercolor
DimensionsImage: 9 7/8 x 15 7/8 in. (25.1 x 40.3 cm)
Mount: 15 7/8 x 21 15/16 in. (40.3 x 55.7 cm)
Mount: 15 7/8 x 21 15/16 in. (40.3 x 55.7 cm)
Credit LineGift of Elias Lyman Magoon
On View
Not on viewPeriod19th c
Classification(s)
SignedOn recto, signed lower left edge in watercolor: Wm.T.Richards.
InscribedOn recto, by artist, lower left edge in watercolor: 1882.
BibliographyHumanizing landscapes: Geography, Culture and the Magoon Collection. (2000). Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, 2000, cat. no. 51, p. 77ProvenanceCommissioned by Dr. E. L. Magoon and presented to Vassar CollegeExhibition HistoryThe Humanizing Landscapes: Geography, Culture and the Magoon Collection, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, October 5 - December 20, 2000
Label TextIn 1882, the American painter William Trost Richards completed a series of seven watercolors featuring notable English landmarks, each representing a distinct historical or allegorical theme. Richards had toured and sketched these sites during his travels in Britain from 1878 to 1880. Elias Magoon, a dedicated collector of Richards’ work and one of Vassar’s founding trustees, commissioned these paintings and later donated them to the college. For Scholastic England, the artist chose to feature the storied Gothic architecture of the Oxford University campus as seen from an adjacent sheep meadow.
DescriptionA depiction of a flat green landscape and the many spired buildings of Oxford with sheep and surrounding trees in the foreground. Fluffy, sun-drenched clouds fill the sky above.
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