Woburn Abbey [art original]

Description

Title: Woburn Abbey [art original]
Creator: Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created: [not after 1853]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: A view of the house and grounds of Woburn Abbey, around which is drawn a decorative border containing seven coats of arms and a crown at top. The house seen at a distance from across the pond, framed by trees in the foreground; a stone bridge is visible on the right
Description: Title written in pencil at bottom of view.
Signed by the artist in lower portion of decorative border, which is drawn on a separate sheet pasted to the edges of the sheet containing the view. It's possible that Harding only drew the border and not the view.
Date of production based on artist's death date.
Mounted on page 152a in an extra-illustrated copy of: Lysons, D. Magna Britannia. London : T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1813.
Provenance: Formerly owned by Robert Rutson James, with his armorial bookplate in the volume. Heffer to W.S. Lewis, October 1959.
Extent: 1 drawing : sheet 20.8 x 12.6 cm, with decorative border 31.7 x 24.8 cm, inlaid to 44 x 27 cm
Language: English

Genre: Views
Watercolors
Material: watercolor, with black ink and gold paint ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): Woburn (England)
Subject (Name): Woburn Abbey,
Subject (Topic): Buildings, structures, etc
Dwellings
Estates
Bridges
Coats of arms
Subjects: Woburn Abbey
Woburn (England) > Buildings, structures, etc
Dwellings
Estates
Bridges
Coats of arms
James, R. Rutson (Robert Rutson), 1881- > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: G.P. Harding, Woburn Abbey. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.