drawing
- Museum number
- 1944,1014.142
- Description
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The Convent; convent building and track to left in foreground on brow of hill overlooking wooded valley and fields below and to right, figure sitting on stone beside building reading; title typed on label attached to the mount
Watercolour
- Production date
- 1812-1816 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 400 millimetres
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Width: 547 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- Part of a series or drawings of "Rural Scenery at Stourhead, in the County of Wilts, the seat of Sir Richard Hoare, Bt."
In set with 1944,1014.124-148. The exact date of the commission is unknown but Nicholson was in Stourhead in 1812, 1813 and 1816, see Gordon Bell, Colin Coulson, Judy Dixon, 'Francis Nicholson (1753 -1844): painter, printmaker and drawing master', Pickering, 2012, p. 43
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1944
- Acquisition notes
- The album from which this sheet was extracted is described in the posthumous catalogue of Sir Richard Colt Hoare's library as: 'Rural Scenery of Stourhead, consisting of 33 Magnificent Drawings, by P. Nicholson. Atlas size, bound in whole russia. A most Splendid Volume.' ('Catalogue of the Hoare library at Stourhead, co. Wilts. to which are added an account of the museum of British antiquities, a catalogue of the paintings and drawings, and a description of the mansion', London, 1840, p. 412).
This item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45. The British Museum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1944,1014.142