Watercolour on paper
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<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>
Shardeloes Park Bucks
Presented by F. Howard through the National Loan Exhibitions Committee 1915
architecture
Buckinghamshire
cloud
country house
England
England, South East
estate
landscape
natural phenomena
places
residential
shadow
Shardeloes Park
UK counties
UK countries and regions
UK man-made landmarks
weather
wooded
paper unique watercolour
Shardeloes Park, Bucks.
support: 356 × 451 mm
Presented by F. Howard through the National Loan Exhibitions Committee 1915
<p><b>N03037</b> SHARDELOES PARK, BUCKS <i>c.</i> 1913</p>
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<p>Inscr. ‘Alfred W. Rich’ b.r. and ‘No.1 International’ below mount b.r.
<br/>Watercolour, 14×17 3/4 (34·5×44·5).
<br/>Presented by Francis Howard through the National Loan Exhibitions Committee 1915.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> International Society, May–June 1915 (185).</p>
<p>Shardeloes, near Amersham, Buckinghamshire, was rebuilt by Stiff Leadbetter in 1758 for William Drake; it has one of the earliest of Robert Adam's interiors. The house has now been converted into flats. The artist also exhibited ‘Near Shardeloes Park’ at the <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/n/new-english-art-club" title="Glossary definition for 'New English Art Club'"><span>N.E.A.C</span></a>., winter 1913 (224), which suggests that the Tate picture may have been painted <i>c.</i> 1913.</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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2004-10-06T00:00:00
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architecture Buckinghamshire cloud country house England England, South East estate landscape natural phenomena places residential shadow Shardeloes Park UK counties UK countries and regions UK man-made landmarks weather wooded