Drawings WORCESTER: Severn Bridge
Object number
LDSAL2020.37.46
Artist/Designer/Maker
Gwynn, John - Artist
Gwynn, John - Architect
Gwynn, John - Architect
Production date
1770
Material
paper
pen
ink
Wash
pen
ink
Wash
Technique
Drawing
Dimensions
Height: 320mm
Width: 985mm
Width: 985mm
Inscriptions
Inscription content
Plan, Elevation, and Section of a Temporary Bridge proposed to be built over the Severn at Worcester.
Inscription content
J. Gwynn Feb. 17th 1770
References
Reference (free text)
'Presents to the Society', Archaeologia 29 (1842): 440.
Reference (free text)
Pamela J Willetts, Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Society of Antiquaries of London (Woodbridge: Brewer, 2000), pp. 244-5.
Reference (free text)
E A B Barnard, The Prattinton Collections of Worcestershire History (Evesham: The Journal Press, 1931).
Reference (free text)
E A B Barnard, Miscellanea II in the Prattinton Collections of Worcestershire History in the Possession on the Society of Antiquaries (1951).
Reference (free text)
E A B Barnard, 'Some Additional Notes Concerning the Prattinton Collections of Worcestershire History', Transactions of the Worcestershire Archaeological Society new series 8 (1931): 67-73.
Reference (free text)
David Whitehead, 'John Gwynn, R.A., and the Building of Worcester Bridge, 1769-86', Transactions of the Worcestershire Archaeological Society 3rd series 8 (1982): 31-45.
