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View of St. Margaret's church, Lynn, Norfolk

Maker

(artist)
1775-1847

Title

View of St. Margaret's church, Lynn, Norfolk

Date of Production

1795 - 1847

Medium

black chalk, pen and brown ink, watercolour on wove paper

Dimensions

Height: 22.6 cm
Width: 12.9 cm

Accession Number

D.1955.WF.4605

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Fund, purchase, 1955

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords



Provenance

Witt Fund Purchase 1955

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 15

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: lower edge, brown ink, artist's hand: "St Margarets Church Lynn St Margaret's Church". Verso: left half of sheet, brown ink, artist's hand, cut off at left edge: "[...]bably 3 difft Centuries 11th [... obliterated by repair] / The Southernmost Tower of ye West front of St Margaret's Church Lynn / [...] of ye largest parochial churches in ye kingdom_ / [...]ounded about 1100 The Arches may be of 240 feet long / 118 wide / 52 high / in form of a cross / [...] tris age near the bottom of ye tower but the / [...]art above them is 1200 to 1230 / The liminal latter part of ye 13th Century - (org[?] more modern) / I agree wth Cotman W.C.".

Collector's mark: none.

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