Drawing (Image-Making)
1850 (made)
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| Place of origin |
Hildesheim, Niedersachsen. View of tall gabled timber-framed houses to either side of a narrow street.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Pencil on grey paper |
| Brief description | One of five sketches of houses and architectural details in Hildesheim, by A.W.N. Pugin. Pencil on paper, 1850. 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 | Hildesheim, Niedersachsen. View of tall gabled timber-framed houses to either side of a narrow street. |
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| Object history | Pugin's diary records that he was in Hildesheim between 24 and 25 May 1850. At this time he was constantly looking for motifs that could be adapted for the interior decoration of the Houses of Parliament, or for his business with Crace. |
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| Bibliographic reference | Alexandra Wedgwood, A.W.N. Pugin and the Pugin Family , London; V&A, 1985, p. 284.
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| Collection | |
| Accession number | E.77:34-1970 |
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| Record created | June 8, 2009 |
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