Watercolour and graphite on paper
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Works with images
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/john-nash-1689" aria-label="More by John Nash" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">John Nash</a>
Blenheim
Purchased 1954
architecture
England
England, East
Essex
farmland
hill
landscape
natural phenomena
orange
path
places
shadow
sunshine
townscapes / man-made features
tree
UK cities, towns and villages
UK counties
UK countries and regions
weather
Wormingford
paper unique watercolour graphite
The Blenheim
support: 578 × 470 mm
Purchased 1954
<p><b>N06214</b> THE BLENHEIM 1947</p>
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<p>Inscr. ‘John Nash/47’ b.r.
<br/>Pencil and watercolour, 22 3/4×18 1/2 (58×47).
<br/>Purchased from the Leicester Galleries (Cleve Fund) 1954.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> Colchester Art Society, Colchester and Norwich, autumn 1947; Leicester Galleries, March 1954 (29), as ‘The Apple Tree’.</p>
<p>The artist wrote from Wormingford, Colchester, where he has lived since 1946: ‘The large Blenheim Orange tree stands close below the upper windows of the house ... with part of the garden, then somewhat undeveloped, and <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/l/landscape" title="Glossary definition for 'Landscape'"><span>landscape</span></a> behind. Nearly all the trees in the distance have been cut down by over-efficient farmers’ (letters of 2 May 1954 and 8 August 1961).</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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2004-10-08T00:00:00
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architecture England England, East Essex farmland hill landscape natural phenomena orange path places shadow sunshine townscapes / man-made features tree UK cities, towns and villages UK counties UK countries and regions weather Wormingford