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Object within Schaaf no. 572

Copy of an etching or engraving, rustic view of a lakeside Gothic ruin

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Object details

Image size: h 12.9cm x w 19.5cm

Paper size: h 16.6cm x w 22.0cm

Object Type: Salted Paper Print

Physical description: bottom right corner clipped

Inscription: pencil X recto; in pencil, verso, from No. 3.; in pencil, verso, 13.; in pencil, verso, fx

Watermark: J Whatman Turkey Mill 1838

Provenance:
Victoria & Albert Museum, 2017
National Science and Media Museum, 2003 to 2017
Royal Photographic Society, number 025096
Royal Photographic Society, previous number 185

Owner: Victoria and Albert Museum

Object owner number: RPS.17-2017

Collection: Royal Photographic Society Collection

Rights and Reproduction

This object is part of Schaaf no. 572

Copy of an etching or engraving, rustic view of a lakeside Gothic ruin

Keywords: Ruin

The image depicts an arched building in ruin with small boats moored nearby.

Possibly Neath Abbey in Wales, which offers similar views of a medieval ruin reflected in water from the nearby Tennant Canal.

It is a variant of Schaaf numbers 432, 441 and 1607.

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