Tithe Barn and Dove House, Hurley
1940
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1940
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Tithe Barn and Dove House, Hurley is a 1940 watercolor by Philip Hussey, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This watercolor shows a quiet countryside scene with two old wooden buildings. One has a steep, dark roof and a small tower on top. The other is shorter with a green door. A person stands near the path, holding something small. Trees and bushes frame the scene, and the grass looks patchy in spots. The artist used loose, quick brushstrokes to capture light and shadow—some areas are barely sketched, while others have more detail. The sky is soft and pale, almost blending into the background. Want to see more works like this? Check out the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Watercolour signed and dated 1940 by Hussey, this work depicts the 14th-century circular dovecote and tithe barn in Hurley, Berkshire. It was produced as part of the Recording Britain scheme, a wartime project initiated in 1940 by the Committee for the Employment of Artists in Wartime under the Ministry of Labour and National Service, with funding from the Pilgrim Trust. Directed by Sir Kenneth Clark, the scheme commissioned artists to document places and buildings across England that represented national identity, aiming to preserve a record of the landscape amid wartime threats and ongoing…
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Philip Hussey (1713–1783), was an Irish portrait-painter. Hussey was born at Cloyne, in the county of Cork and his career began as a sailor. He was shipwrecked three times. He drew the figureheads and stern ornaments of…
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