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Malmsbury Abbey

Maker

After
(artist)
1744-1817

(printmaker, publisher)
1743-1805

(printmaker)
ca. 1750-1831 (Life dates)

(publisher)
1744-1817

Title

Malmsbury Abbey

Date of Production

1780

Medium

printed in black
etching and engraving

Dimensions

Height: 29 cm
Width: 21.5 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.6109.24

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

Keywords








pig houses

Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Inscriptions

Inscription: Drawn by T.Hearne. //

Stamp: WITT / LIBRARY //

Label: THE ABBEY CHURCH AT MALMSBURY, / Of which the print exhibits the remains of the west end, appears from / the different styles of Architecture employed in its several parts... //

Inscription: T.O. //

Inscription: Engrav'd by W.Byrne & S.Middiman. //

Inscription: MALMSBURY ABBEY. / London: Piblish'd as the Act directs, 21 Dec.r 1780, by T.Hearne & W.Byrne. / O! it pities us / to see these antique towers, and hallow'd walls / split with the winters Frost, or mouldring down / their very Ruins ruin'd; The crush'd Pavement / TIME's marble register, deep overgrown / with Hemlock, or rank Furnatory, hides together with their perishable mold / the brave man's Trophies, and the good man's praise, / envying the worth of buried Ancestry! //

Inscription: No. XXVIII //

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