[East front of Chichester Cross] [art original].

Description

Title: [East front of Chichester Cross] [art original].
Creator: Vertue, George, 1684-1756, artist
Published / Created: [between 1720 and 1756?]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Drawing of the eastern front of Chichester Cross, a 15th-century market cross that stands in the center of the city of Chichester
Description: Title devised by cataloger.
Date supplied by cataloger.
Note in ink in upper left corner, partially trimmed from sheet: The east [front?].
Mounted on page 57 in a volume of ca. 50 drawings that was assembled from works purchased by Horace Walpole at the Vertue sale of 1757. Now bound in red morocco, this volume has Walpole's manuscript title-page: Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue and others.
George Vertue, English artist, 1684-1756.
Provenance: Sold at Strawberry Hill Sale, day viii, lot 32, to Smith [London, 1268]. Lord Waldegrave, July 1948, to W.S. Lewis, in a collection.
Extent: 1 drawing : sheet 40.3 x 26.4 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 49 3581 v.1
Collection Title: Volume 1, page 57. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue and others.
Collection / Other Creator: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, collector.
Collection Date: [England], [ca. 1757]

Genre: Ink drawings
Wash drawings
Material: ink, wash and pencil ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): Chichester (England)
Subject (Topic): Buildings, structures, etc
Subjects: Chichester (England) > Buildings, structures, etc
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Vertue, George, 1684-1756 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: George Vertue, East front of Chichester Cross. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.