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Object within Schaaf no. 2362

Gothick arch at Lacock Abbey, taken with a Camera Obscura

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Created: 21 Mar 1840

Image size: h 17.7cm x w 21.5cm

Object Type: Paper Negative-Camera

Physical description: top corners of negative clipped

Inscription: in pencil, upper right, verso, 21 March/40 [21 March 1840]; in pencil, verso, upper left, 9' [9 minute exposure]

Owner: Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History

Object owner number: 1995.0206.022

Collection: Photographic History Collection

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This object is part of Schaaf no. 2362

Gothick arch at Lacock Abbey, taken with a Camera Obscura

Location: Lacock Abbey

Keywords: Architecture Landscape

The arch is not true medieval Gothic. It is part of the Gothic revival (also known as Gothick) additions to Lacock Abbey designed as by Sanderson Miller in the eighteenth century.

The Gothic revival additions to Lacock Abbey are discussed in a project blog.

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