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Object number

LDSAL2020.1.4

Artist/Designer/Maker

Smirke, Sidney - Artist

Production date

1838

Material

Paper
Pen
Ink
Wash

Technique

Drawing

Dimensions

Height: 226mm
Width: 563mm

Inscriptions

Inscription content

Sketches explanatory of the Mode adopted by Masons at various and distant periods in forming a straight head over an Aperture.
Archæologia Vol. XXVII. p. 384.

Inscription content

FROM THE WEST FRONT OF ROCHESTER CATHEDRAL.

CHIMNEY OPENING AT EDGCOT [sic] NORTHAMPTONSHIRE.

Inscription content

Sydney Smirke
Feb. 1838.

References

Reference (free text)

Sydney Smirke, 'Observations on the Mode Adopted by Masons at Various and Distant Periods in Forming a Straight Head over an Aperture', Archaeologia 27 (1838): 381-5. Illustration (Engraving), nos. 4 and 5, pl. XXVII, opp. p. 384.