drawing
- Museum number
- 1874,0314.137
- Description
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Poor box, St Helen's Church, Bishopsgate; a wooden poor box supported by a bearded figure, truncated at the thigh, holding a begging bowl, the box has two keyholes in its front and above it is a small wooden plaque.
Watercolour with bodycolour over graphite
- Production date
- 1857 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 336 millimetres
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Width: 230 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- One of a large series of drawings and watercolours of buildings and antiquities in London by John Wykeham Archer, in 17 portfolios (mostly stored offsite); for further information on the series, see registration number 1874,0314.1*.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1874
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1874,0314.137