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View of the Dining Hall in Magdalen College, Oxford
Joseph Nash1856
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
The Magdalen College dining hall is furnished with long tables, chairs and benches. One table is set for a meal with a white linen cloth, glasses and utensils. The Tudor style is reflected in the linen-fold panelled walls, carved with scenes from the life of St. Mary Magdalen; vaulted plaster ceiling; and leaded stained glass windows. Portraits of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey and of the Magdalen College founder, William Waynflete, hang in their original positions, joined by portraits of others associated with the College.
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- Title: View of the Dining Hall in Magdalen College, Oxford
- Creator: Joseph Nash The Elder
- Creator Lifespan: 1808/1878
- Date Created: 1856
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: Thaw Collection
- Medium: Brush and watercolor, white gouache, gray wash, black ink and graphite on heavy off-white wove paper
- Signed: Inscribed in graphite on verso, lower center: 3998 and lower right: # 1552
- Provenance: Eugene V. Thaw Collection
- Paper Support: Heavy off-white wove paper
- Dimensions: Frame H x W x D: 60 x 75.6 x 2.5 cm (23 5/8 x 29 3/4 x 1 in.)Sheet: 33.7 x 48.5 cm (13 1/4 x 19 1/8 in.)
- Bibliography: Gail S. Davidson et al., House Proud, Nineteenth-Century Watercolor Interiors from the Thaw Collection (New York: Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution, 2008), 34, fig. 8; 124, pl. 59.Roger White and Robin Darwell-Smith, The Architectural Drawings of Magdalen College: A Catalogue (London: Sir Banister Fletcher Library, 2001).
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