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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

Associated place

Rochester Cathedral
Rochester (Medway)
Medway
Kent
Edgcote
Northamptonshire
England
United Kingdom
Europe

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.