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- Title:
- Detail of Red Altar for Prestbury Church, Cheltenham
- Additional Title(s):
- Restbury Church Cheltenham No 27, Detail of Red alter frontal. Full Size
- Date:
- 1864
- Materials & Techniques:
- Graphite, pen and black ink on thin, moderately textured, brown wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 19 1/4 × 27 7/8 inches (48.9 × 70.8 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in black ink, upper left: "Restbury Church Cheltenham No 27 | Detail of Red Altar frontal. Full Size"; in black ink, upper right: "Detail of Superfrontal + fringe altar front | Full Size" : in black ink, notes over elevation; in black ink, upper right: "The work to be done on 4 quarter flax (doubled | so as to make it stiff and thick) the flax to be | [?stielded] on a small frame, the outline of the | embroydery based on it, and then the back done | acending to the directions here given. | when done the work must be cut out as more the | size as poossible without damaging the work. and | applique on the Velvet & Silk and bound | round with thick black flors belk stitched down | with black sewing silk."
Signed and dated in black ink, lower left: "George Edmund Street. Architect | 51 Russell Square. W. C. London | August. 1864"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1975.2.708
- Classification:
- Drawing & Watercolors-Architectural
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- architectural subject
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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