Title
A View of St Michael's Chapell near Glassenbury comonly called the Toor taken in ye year 1727. / AB Lens.
Creator
Lens, Andrew Benjamin, approximately 1713-approximately 1779, artist.
Publication details
1727.
Physical details
1 drawing : pen and black ink with monochrome wash ; sheet 24.6 x 35.3 cm
Description
Figures and horses in the foreground; a furrowed field in the middle ground; Glastonbury Tor and St Michael's Tower on the horizon. Signed in black ink in the lower right-hand corner. Inscribed with title below image in black ink.
Place
Glastonbury (England)
Additional information
A drawing by Bernard Lens III (1682-1740) of the same view is in the British Museum 1853,0409.67 and is inscribed with the extensive title 'A View of St Michael's Church commonly called the Torr, at Glastonbury from Mendip hills Five Miles off wells in Somersetshire' which was used as a title for Maps K.Top.38.6.f. The British Museum drawing is also inscribed '28' in the upper right-hand corner.
Shelfmark
Maps K.Top.38.6.f.