Drawing
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Perspective of a pyx.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Pen and ink over pencil |
| Brief description | 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 | Perspective of a pyx. |
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| Object history | This design is simialr to that illustrated by A.W.N.Pugin in his 'Glossary of Ecclesiastical Ornament', 1844. The draughtsmanship of this design, however, is hesitant and the drawing mat therefore be an early work of E.W.Pugin to whom it is attributed. |
| Bibliographic reference | Alexandra Wedgwood, A.W.N. Pugin and the Pugin Family , London; V&A, 1985, p. 315.
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| Collection | |
| Accession number | E.77:95-1970 |
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| Record created | October 20, 2010 |
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