View looking over the Groves of Yew Trees in Kingly Bottom near Chiichester
View looking over the Groves of Yew Trees in Kingly Bottom near Chiichester
View looking over the Groves of Yew Trees in Kingley Bottom near ChichesterSigned lower right: W. Turner/Oxford and signed and inscribed on old backing: View looking over the Groves of Yew trees in Kingly Bottom near Chichester./No.8/W. Turner/16. St. John's St Oxford.Watercolour over pencil heightened with touches of bodycolour and gum arabic36.9 by 54.3 cm., 14 ½ by 21 ¼ in. Provenance:Thomas Toller, 6 Grays Inn Square, 1848Exhibited:London, Society of Painters in Water-colours, 1848, no.256, bt. Toller for 8 gns.Kingley Bottom is now part of the Kingley Vale nature reserve which is famous for its ancient yew trees. An 1870s Gazeteer describes it as follows: `Kingly-Bottom, a narrow vale in West Stoke parish, Sussex; under Bow Hill, 4 miles NW of Chichester. It is picturesquely wooded; and it is said to have got its name from a slaughter of kings or leaders of invading Danes, in a battle with them by the men of Chichester, about the year 900. Four large barrows in its N hill-flank are thought to mark the graves of the slain kings' (John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazeteer of England and Wales, 1870-2). The spire of Chichester Cathedral and the English Channel are visible in the distance.Turner of Oxford drew a number of similar panoramic views on the South Downs. Another view of Kingley Bottom by Turner of Oxford is in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum.){kind=link}
William Turner of Oxford (1789-1862)
View looking over the Groves of Yew Trees in Kingley Bottom near Chichester
Signed lower right: W. Turner/Oxford and signed and inscribed on old backing: View looking over the Groves of Yew trees in Kingly Bottom near Chichester./No.8/W. Turner/16. St. John's St Oxford.
Watercolour over pencil heightened with touches of bodycolour and gum arabic
36.9 by 54.3 cm., 14 ½ by 21 ¼ in.
Provenance:
Thomas Toller, 6 Grays Inn Square, 1848
Exhibited:
London, Society of Painters in Water-colours, 1848, no.256, bt. Toller for 8 gns.
Kingley Bottom is now part of the Kingley Vale nature reserve which is famous for its ancient yew trees. An 1870s Gazeteer describes it as follows: `Kingly-Bottom, a narrow vale in West Stoke parish, Sussex; under Bow Hill, 4 miles NW of Chichester. It is picturesquely wooded; and it is said to have got its name from a slaughter of kings or leaders of invading Danes, in a battle with them by the men of Chichester, about the year 900. Four large barrows in its N hill-flank are thought to mark the graves of the slain kings' (John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazeteer of England and Wales, 1870-2). The spire of Chichester Cathedral and the English Channel are visible in the distance.
Turner of Oxford drew a number of similar panoramic views on the South Downs. Another view of Kingley Bottom by Turner of Oxford is in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum.