This little building to the right (South) of the Pitt Rivers Museum has often intrigued me. It has four chimneys. one in each corner.
After I’d drawn it, I went to try to find out what it is. It appears to be connected to the Pitt Rivers Museum, but has no special name itself, and its purpose was not stated. Since I finished the drawing at about half past seven in the evening, the door was closed and locked and no-one was about. It is in the same style as the main Pitt Rivers Museum.
“The new Museum building was structurally completed in 1860, and is now considered a gem of middle Victorian neo-Gothic architecture”
says the museum’s website.* In the background you can see the roofs and pipework of the science site. On the right is the Radcliffe Science library.
The strange vehicle in the foreground trundled in while I was drawing. It looks like a garden shed on wheels. The registration number is: Q710 LBW.
On my way home after the lecture I drew this quick sketch of Merton Chapel looking down the marvellously named “Magpie Lane” off the High Street.
Pitt-Rivers Annex: 1 hour 40mins
Merton Chapel: 40 mins
Both in Jacksons Watercolour Sketchbook. Pen and wash.
I have drawn pictures in Oxford before:
*The Pitt Rivers Museum Website contains a document on its history (consulted July 1st 2018) http://web.prm.ox.ac.uk/sma/index.php/articles/article-index/436-prehistory-of-the-pitt-rivers-museum.html
Jane Sketching 