drawing
- Museum number
- Oo,5.36
- Description
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'The Pipers', Cornwall; two monoliths one in the immediate foreground in a field, the other in the distance rising above a hedgerow which encloses it, two men loading a cart of hay
Pen and grey ink and grey wash, with watercolour
- Production date
- 1744-1817
- Dimensions
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Height: 174 millimetres
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Width: 233 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- The subject was identified in the 1837 inventory of the Department's collections as the Devil's Arrows, two standing stones at Boroughbridge, near Ripon, Yorkshire. In his 1845 MS Catalogue of the Payne Knight Collection of Drawings, W.H. Carpenter included the following note: 'On the mount is written "Pillars of Stone near Borough Bridge called ye Devil's Arrows, formerly three but one fell down & was used in building'. However, in 1900 Laurence Binyon catalogued it as a view of the Pipers, two stones at Rosemodress, Cornwall.
See Barbara Milner, 'Thomas Hearne, 1744-1817: A catalogue of his watercolours and drawings in the British Museum', unpublished typescript (MA report for Courtauld Institute), 1983, no.9.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1824
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- Oo,5.36