- Subject
- Paintings
- Item type
- Object
- Makers
- Arthur Knapp-Fisher
- Provenance
- Presented by the Artist, A. B. Knapp-Fisher, FRIBA, in 1930.
- Primary inscriptions
- Titled and signed by the artist: 'Old Ashmolean - 1924' and 'A B Knapp-Fisher'. Captioned on mount: 'The Old Ashmolean. | For L. Rice-Oxley, Oxford Renowned, 1925 | by A. B. Knapp-Fisher F.R.I.B.A. | Presented by the Artist.'.
- Object type
- watercolour
- Dimensions
- Height: 522mm Width: 401mm Depth: 22mm Weight: 1.6kg
- Inventory No
- 13360
- Accession Number
- 1930-32/bis
Description
Original watercolour drawing made for reproduction in the book L. Rice-Oxley, Oxford Renowned (published 1925). It shows the Old Ashmolean in the year the Museum of the History of Science (Lewis Evans Collection) was founded there, 1924, from a slightly unusual vantage point behind the Sheldonian Theatre, so that the east front of the Old Ashmolean is on the left and the rear corner of the Theatre on the right, with houses on the opposite side of Broad Street centre. An iron fence and gateway goes between the Old Ashmolean and the Sheldonian.
Enclosed in a modern conservation mount; framed and glazed, in a rather flimsy gold frame, currently without backing board.
Knapp-Fisher was an architect, and Professor of Architecture at the Royal College of Art, London.
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