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Lanercost Priory

Maker

(artist)
1744-1817

(engraver)
1743-1805

(engraver)
1735-1785

(publisher)
1744-1817

(publisher)
1743-1805

Title

Lanercost Priory

Date of Production

15.8.1780

Medium

Ink on paper

Dimensions

Height: 28.9 cm
Width: 21.4 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.4373

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Library, transfer, 1990

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

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Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Inscriptions

Inscription: inscription : printed : lower left margin & recto : : Drawn by T. Hearne / ___These lone walls / and storie3d arches have a character, / marking the Virtues of the Times deceas'd / whilst ECHO from her hollow charnel Vaults //

Inscription: inscription : printed : lower right margin & recto : : Engraved by W. Byrne / speaks in the listening ear of CONTEMPLATION, / the Epilogue to Life's MORTALITY; / How soon its gaudy Pagentries are pass'd / and DEATH without his mask shuts the last Scene! //

Inscription: inscription : printed : lower centre margin & recto : : The Figure by W. Woollett. / LANERCOST PRIORY. / London[colon] Publish'd as the Act directs, 15 Auft. 1780, by W. Byrne [ampersand] T. Hearne. //

Inscription: inscription : typed : lower right margin & recto : later Witt inscription : T.O. //

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