'A dissertation on the Monument of Edward the Confessor. By Mr George Vertue. 1736.' Fols. 123r-127r.
Reference code
SAL/10/09/36
Title
'A dissertation on the Monument of Edward the Confessor. By Mr George Vertue. 1736.' Fols. 123r-127r.
Date
30 July 1741
Level of description
Item
Scope and content
Read 30 July 1741: Minute Book IV, p. 80 (SAL/02/004/062). Also transcribed in ‘Register of Antiquitys’, pp.221-9 (SAL/10/10/035). Printed in Archaeologia, 1 (1770), 32-9.
Includes sketches by Vertue of the shrine and a ‘table of pictures’, the latter now known as the Westminster retable: see Archaeologia, 109 (1991), 102, 108 n. 10, pl. XXVII(a).
Includes sketches by Vertue of the shrine and a ‘table of pictures’, the latter now known as the Westminster retable: see Archaeologia, 109 (1991), 102, 108 n. 10, pl. XXVII(a).
Creator
Vertue, George (1684-1756), engraver and antiquary