drawing
- Museum number
- 1948,0410.14
- Description
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St Albans, Hertfordshire; view down wide street, shadowed to left, with baskets scattered in foreground, to right figure milking cow while another cow stands in foreground, further back figures trading, octagonal columned structure in distant centre, low square tower rising above rooftops to right
Pen and grey ink and watercolour
- Production date
- 1800-1812
- Dimensions
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Height: 347 millimetres
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Width: 509 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- Shepherd exhibited views of St Alban's at the Royal Academy in 1803, 1805, 1808 and 1809, when his submissions included 'Interior view of St Alban's town Herts'. An engraving after PD 1948,0410.14 but with different figures was published in 'The Beauties of England and Wales', volume III; the volume is dated 1808 on the title page, but the plate itself 1812.
Ref: C.R.Grundy, A catalogue of the pictures and drawings in the collection of Frederick John Nettlefold, IV, 1937, p.230.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1948
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1948,0410.14
