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- Title:
A View from St. Mary's, Southwark, Looking Towards Westminster
- Date:
- ca. 1638
- Medium:
- Pen and black ink over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 5 1/8 × 12 1/8 inches (13 × 30.8 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in artist's hand in graphite and brown ink, upper center: "<East Part> West part o Southwark toward Westminster"; inscribed on verso in pen and brown ink, "23 10 | 18 12 | 120 | 3 | 63 | 228 2/1"
Fragment, unidentified.
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.5548
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- buildings | cityscape | trees
- Associated Places:
- England | Europe | London | Southwark | United Kingdom
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:10185
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