William Turner of Oxford
Woodman's Cottage, Bagley Wood

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Artist William Turner of OxfordBritish, 1789–1862

CultureBritish

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Woodman's Cottage, Bagley Wood

Datec. 1830

MediumWatercolor heightened with bodycolor on paper

DimensionsSheet: 11 × 18 9/16 in. (27.9 × 47.2 cm)

Credit LineThe Stuart Collection, museum purchase funded by Francita Stuart Koelsch Ulmer

Object number2024.16.A,.B

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Department

Prints and Drawings

Object Type

DRAWINGS, PASTELS & WATERCOLORS

ProvenanceThe artist, c. 1830; Sir Henry Studdy Theobald K.C. (1847-1934) [Lugt 1375] [1]; Guy D. Harvey-Samuel, Esq.; [The Fine Art Society Ltd., London, Fortieth Exhibition of Early English Water-colours and Drawings, May 18, 1960, no. 46]; purchased by Walter Augustus Brandt (1902-1978) [2]; by descent, 1978-2022; [Lowell Libson & Jonny Yarker Ltd., London, 2022-2023]; purchased by MFAH, 2023.

[1] Born in Calcutta, raised in Rugby, and educated at Balliol College, H.S. Theobald became a highly distinguished lawyer and legal reformer, as well as an author. Over the course of many years during the second half of the 19th century, Theobald amassed an impressive collection of Old Master and modern prints, many of them purchased from Colnaghi, Noseda, Obach, and R. Gutekunst. When Theobald lost his sight around 1908, he broke up his collection, giving his Whistler etchings to Colnaghi and selling the rest in a series of sales in London and Stuttgart.

[2] Walter Brandt (1902-1978) was the scion of a successful German banking family established Britain since the early 1800s, Brandt started collecting in the 1940s and began buying in earnest towards the end of the 1950s, after which time he acquired drawings almost continually until his death. Though initially focused on contemporary art, Brandt grew increasingly interested in earlier work, and he eventually amassed one of the finest, most extensive collections of British drawings dating from 1650 to 1850; in particular, Brandt was a pioneering collector of neoclassical and romantic drawings.
Exhibition HistoryLondon, The Fine Art Society Ltd., Fortieth Exhibition of Early English Water-colours and Drawings, May-June 1960, Cat. 46.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Recto: Titled and signed in ink, right bottom edge: Woodman's Cottage Bagley Wood Oxford / W Turner [cursive]
Verso: Inscribed in graphite, lower right edge: [illegible] Oaks Bagl[partial]

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