The Brasenose College Eight on the Isis at Oxford
The Brasenose College Eight on the Isis at Oxford
The Brasenose College Eight on the Isis at Oxford Inscribed on original mount: The Original Drawing of the BNC Watercolour over touches of pencil heightened with bodycolour29.3 by 49.5 cm.,11 ½ by 19 ½ in. Provenance:Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London 26th November 1998, lot 38;Private Collection until 2024This is from the rare series of watercolours by Turner of Oxford College Eights dating from the 1820s. Brasenose College have been rowing on the Isis since 1815 making the Brasenose College Boat Club (or BNBC), along with Jesus College, the oldest collegiate boat club in the world. On the bow of the boat is the Childe of Hale's Nose which was fixed there in the early years of Eights Week.A related watercolour of the Exeter College Eight is in the Yale Center for British Art.){kind=link}
William Turner of Oxford (1789-1862)
The Brasenose College Eight on the Isis at Oxford
Inscribed on original mount: The Original Drawing of the BNC
Watercolour over touches of pencil heightened with bodycolour
29.3 by 49.5 cm.,11 ½ by 19 ½ in.
Provenance:
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London 26th November 1998, lot 38;
Private Collection until 2024
This is from the rare series of watercolours by Turner of Oxford College Eights dating from the 1820s. Brasenose College have been rowing on the Isis since 1815 making the Brasenose College Boat Club (or BNBC), along with Jesus College, the oldest collegiate boat club in the world. On the bow of the boat is the Childe of Hale's Nose which was fixed there in the early years of Eights Week.
A related watercolour of the Exeter College Eight is in the Yale Center for British Art.