Drawing
1848 (made)
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| Place of origin |
Ely, Cambridgshire. The Queen's Hall, Cathedral Precinct. View of the exterior from the south. Inscribed 'Conventual Buildings, Ely.'
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Pen and ink over pencil |
| Brief description | One of a collection of 23 topographical drawings of castles, churches, and bridges, in Germany, England and Venice, along with other ecclesiastical drawings, by A.W.N. Pugin. One of 113 leaves from various sketchbooks with topographical drawings, juvenilia, designs for ornament, sketches of architecture and metalwork. c. 1839-52. Predominantly using pencil, pen and ink, and watercolour. |
| Physical description | Ely, Cambridgshire. The Queen's Hall, Cathedral Precinct. View of the exterior from the south. Inscribed 'Conventual Buildings, Ely.' |
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| Marks and inscriptions | Inscribed 'Conventional Buildings, Ely' |
| Object history | Pugin and his new wife Jane, were in Ely on the 24 and 25 August 1848, during their wedding tour of British cathedrals, and this drawing was almost certainly made then. |
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| Bibliographic reference | Alexandra Wedgwood, A.W.N. Pugin and the Pugin Family , London; V&A, 1985, p. 288.
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| Collection | |
| Accession number | E.77:16-1970 |
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| Record created | September 21, 2010 |
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