Title
Limehouse Tower 1719.
Creator
Hawksmoor, Nicholas, 1661-1736, artist, architect.
Publication details
[1719]
Physical details
1 drawing : pen and brown ink over pencil ; sheet 48.1 x 45.4 cm
Description
Two elevations of a church tower. Inscribed with title in brown ink on the lower edge. Bears watermark of a shield and a Fleur de Lys.
Place
London (England)
Additional information
Kerry Downes suggests that this item and the accompanying seven drawings Maps K.Top.28.11.b-i., might have been part of the sale of Hawksmoor's posessions in 1740: 'A Catalogue of a curious collection of original pictures, prints, drawings, and brass figures, books, and books of prints, and of Architect, of that well known Architect Nicholas hawksmoor, Esq; deceas'd . . . to be sold at auction' (1740) (S.C.426.(1)), lot 166 'Thity ditto [designs] for Limehouse and Spitlefields Churches by Hawksmoor'. See Downes, Kerry, ''Hawksmoor's Sale Catalogue" in 'The Burlington Magazine', Vol. 95, No. 607 (Oct., 1953), pp. 332-335.
Shelfmark
Maps K.Top.28.11.h.