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Object Type
print
Museum number
1868,0808.3066
Title
Object:
The West End of Malmsbury Abbey
Description
Part of a ruined abbey with a thatched pig-sty in the nave, wooden scaffolds supporting the arches behind it to left, intricate carved patterns and roundels on the remaining base of the arches decorating the west end, to right, pigs, another sty and a seated man in the foreground; etched state. 1780 Etching
Producer name
Print made by:
William Woollett
(figures)
Print made by:
William Byrne
Print made by:
Samuel Middiman
After:
Thomas Hearne
School/style
British
Production date
1780
Materials
paper
Technique
etching
Dimensions
Height:
292 millimetres
Width:
216 millimetres
Curator's comments
See 1849,0328.71.
Bibliographic references
Fagan 1885 / A Catalogue Raisonné of the Engraved Works of William Woollett
(110.I)
((page 50, no. III))
Location
Not on display
Subjects
farm building/farmyard
Associated names
Illustration to:
Thomas Hearne
Illustration to:
William Byrne
Portrait of:
Reverend Charles Davy II
Associated places
Topographic representation of:
Malmesbury Abbey
Associated titles
Associated Title:
Antiquities of Great Britain...
Acquisition name
Purchased from:
Charles J Palmer
Purchased through:
Sotheby's
(18-24.v.1868/113)
Purchased through:
Colnaghi
Acquisition date
1868
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
1868,0808.3066