Shrivenham
1940
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1940
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Shrivenham is a 1940 watercolor by Fairclough, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This sketch shows a quiet village street with small houses on both sides. The buildings have simple roofs and some have chimneys. A dirt road runs down the middle, with a few people walking or riding bikes. Trees line the street, and power lines stretch across the scene. The artist used loose, quick strokes to capture light and shadow. The whole scene feels warm and a bit faded, like an old photograph. Look up the Victoria and Albert Museum to see more works like this.
This 1940 watercolour by Fairclough depicts a view of Shrivenham village, featuring a winding street lined with thatched houses and a grassy embankment in the foreground. The work was created as part of the *Recording Britain* project, a wartime initiative led by Sir Kenneth Clark to document British landscapes and communities during the Second World War. The scheme employed artists to capture scenes of national identity, focusing on English towns, villages, and rural settings while excluding Northern Ireland and limited areas of Wales. Over 1,500 works were produced under the project, which…
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Fairclough is a surname. A variant form is Faircloth. Notable people with the surname include:Adam Fairclough (historian), British historian of the United States Anna Fairclough, member of the Alaska House of…
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