Tithe Barn, Bradford-on-Avon
1878
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1878
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
George Price Boyce painted a quiet watercolour of an old barn in 1878. It shows the Tithe Barn at Bradford-on-Avon, a huge medieval building from the 1300s. People once gave grain here to support their local church. The scene was actually sketched outside in autumn 1877. Boyce kept careful notes about his artist friends, the Pre-Raphaelites. He borrowed their love of small details in his work. This work sits in the Victoria and Albert Museum today.
