THe Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Stuart, the teacher of the art class I go to, organised a coach trip to Oxford for his classes. Mostly so he could see the display of stringed instruments, guitars to be precise, but for us to view the collections of painting they have for us students.
The Ashmolean "allows photography every where except where it says you shouldn't, please do not use flash photography.". Now I'm sure there are those amongst you who have advanced enough cameras to deal with this but I don't so the following photos have been extensively fiddled with to make them visible at all. The figures and instruments are all in glass cabinets and reflections make them blurry. All the paintings, I wanted to photograph were water colour and c over with glass so for the reasons stated above I didn't bother photographing them. There is one oil painting that I did snap, you will no doubt realise why when you see it. I took a lot more when Beth and I went out to do a bit of Architectual photographing You'll have those inflicted on you later.

All photos are clickable thumbnails.


This one is blurred because of bad photography I have put it in to give you a context for the close up.

This is the woman's skirt, both figures clothes are covered with patterns only flesh is smooth. They are about 2 feet high.

The Painting



And this is what a real Stradivarius looks like, which to me is not a lot, but it is the sound that counts.

Many wellknown Oxford sights and some bits and pieces. Part 1

I didn't think I had taken so many photos. These just cover from the Ashmolean to Christchurch with the Radcliffe and a Church I am not sure of the location of. I just wrote St. Mary's down as the name but which of the many it is I don't know.
All photos are clickable thumb nails and are titled on the bigger picture,