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Museum number: 1850,0223.838
Description: York, view from Clifford's Tower; looking SE over York Castle towards countryside, with various landmarks including the Sessions House, Jury House, the Prison, Castle Mills, with River Ouse to right, Fulford in distance. 1710 Pen and brown ink, with brown wash, tinted with watercolour, on three conjoined sheets
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Production date: 1710
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Dimensions: Height: 271 millimetres; Width: 612 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references: Croft-Murray 1960 / Catalogue of British Drawings in the British Museum, XVI and XVII centuries (35); Binyon 1898-1907 / Catalogue of drawings by British artists, and artists of foreign origin working in Great Britain (38)
Location: Not on display
Exhibition history: 1949/50, BM, English topographical and landscape drawing, no.61 1977 Oct-Nov, Louisville, Speed Mus, British watercolours, no. 2 2012 April-Aug, York, Fairfax House, Views of York
Subjects: legal building; prison
Associated places: Topographic representation of: York
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Previous owner: Previous owner/ex-collection: Mrs Frances Wyndham; Previous owner/ex-collection: Wadham Wyndham; Previous owner/ex-collection: Parrott (Family;?)
Acquisition date: 1850
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1850,0223.838

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