print
- Museum number
- 1849,0328.71
- Title
- Object: Lanercost Priory
- Description
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The transept of a ruined medieval priory with a man standing in contemplation in profile to left; etched state. 1780
Etching
- Production date
- 1780
- Dimensions
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Height: 289 millimetres
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Width: 213 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- There is a MS document in BM P&D, kept with this impression, unsigned but written by George Baker, according to W J White, dated 3 September 1808, which states that Mr Hearne had assured Baker on the 29th April 1800, that Woollett was responsible for the figures in this plate and in five others: Warkworth Hermitage, Malmesbury Abbey, Castle Acre Castle, Brancepeth Castle, the Monastery at Tynemouth. These were published as illustrations to the 'Antiquities of Great Britain, Illustrated in Views of Monasteries, Castles, and Churches, now existing, Engraved by W. Bryne, F.S.A. from Drawings made by Thomas Hearne, F.S.A. With descriptions in English and in French' (2 vol.s, 83 plates, London 1801: Vol. I published 1786).
Below Baker's note, White has written further details (dated 1 March 1830): the man in this plate is Reverend Davy of One House in Suffolk, also author of the verses below the image; the seated figure in Malmesbury Abbey is Davy's son, author of the verses below that plate; that a drawing by Woollett exists of One House, 'finished as an engraving in pen and ink', which was previously in White's collection.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Antiquities of Great Britain...
- Acquisition date
- 1849
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1849,0328.71
