- Title:
- Broad Street, Oxford
- Former Title(s):
- Broad Street, Oxford, full moon
- Date:
- ca. 1790
- Materials & Techniques:
- Watercolor, charcoal and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 12 × 17 7/8 inches (30.5 × 45.4 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite on verso, center: "Broad Street, Oxford, looking East, The Clarendon Press and | Thesdonian Theatre in the distance. Winter, full moon | 6 p.m., Jan 1,1790 | Taken from a spot in front of J.B. Malchair's house", inscribed on verso, in lower left: "Malchair's handwriting", inscribed in verso, lower left to center: "Clarendon Street Oxford - Jan-1st-1790-16", inscribed on verso, lower center: "17 3/4x12", inscribed in verso, lower right:"No 147" encircled
Watermark: fleur-de-lis (not in Heawood, Churchill or Shorter), embossing on mount
Signed in graphite on verso, center: "By John Baptist Malchair | 1727/31-1812"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.5452
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- cityscape | street | university
- Associated Places:
- Balliol College | Clarendon Building | England | Europe | Exeter College | Oxford | Oxfordshire | Sheldonian Theater | United Kingdom | University of Oxford
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
Note: The Study Room is open by appointment. Please visit the Study Room page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:11086
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Presences of Nature - British Landscape 1780-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-10-20 - 1983-02-27) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Louis Hawes, Presences of Nature : British Landscape, 1780-1830, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1982, p. 197, no. VI.22, pl. 169, ND1354.4 H38 (YCBA) [YCBA]