Watercolour and charcoal on paper
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
Contemporary Art Society
Collection
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/alfred-william-rich-445" aria-label="More by Alfred William Rich" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Alfred William Rich</a>
St Marys Oxford
Presented by the Contemporary Art Society 1917
architecture
church
door
England
England, South East
England, Southern
features
finial
natural phenomena
Oxford, St Mary the Virgin’s Church
Oxfordshire
places
portico
religious
shadow
stonework
sunshine
UK cities, towns and villages
UK counties
UK countries and regions
weather
window
paper unique watercolour charcoal
St Mary’s, Oxford
support: 235 × 276 mm
Presented by the <a href="/search?gid=999999975" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Contemporary Art Society</a> 1917
<p><b>N03180</b>	ST MARY'S, OXFORD <i>c.</i> 1909</p>
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<p>Inscr. ‘A. W. Rich’ b.l.
<br/>Watercolour, 9 1/4×10 7/8 (25·5×27·8).
<br/>Presented by the Contemporary Art Society 1917.
<br/><i>Coll:</i> Presented to the C.A.S. by Miss E. P. McGhee 1911.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> N.E.A.C., winter 1909 (265).</p>
<p>St Mary's is the University Church of Oxford. The south porch, shown here, was erected in 1637 by Doctor Owen, Chaplain to Archbishop Laud, and the statue of the Virgin in the niche above it was specifically mentioned in the articles of Laud's Impeachment.</p>
<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, <i>The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture</i>, London 1964, II
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Catalogue entry
2004-07-16T00:00:00
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architecture church door England England, South East England, Southern features finial natural phenomena Oxfordshire Oxford, St Mary the Virgin’s Church places portico religious shadow stonework sunshine UK cities, towns and villages UK counties UK countries and regions weather window