Title
View of the Seven Churches with a procoession of the Catholics at Christmas. / P. VAN LERBERGHE.
Creator
Van Lerberghe, Peter, 1772 or 1773- artist.
Publication details
[about 1780-1802]
Physical details
1 drawing : pen and black ink with watercolour ; sheet 36 x 48.5 cm, on sheet 42.5 x 55.8 cm
Description
View of Glandalough in the Wicklow Mountains, Ireland; the ruins of St Kevin's Church on the left and the ruined cathedral on the right; figures in procession in the moonlight at the centre of the scene; a lake beyond; mountains on either side and in the distance. Inscribed with title in black ink along lower edge below image. Signed in gouache in the lower right-hand corner. Inscribed indistinctly [probably with title] in pencil on verso.
Place
Glendalough (Ireland)
Additional information
This drawing was sold in 1802 (A catalogue of a capital collection of prints, &c. : comprising many very fine by Bartolozzi, Callot, Della Bella, Hollar ... : the property of P. Van Lerberghe, gone abroad : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Richardson) and is on wove paper which suggests it was made between 1780-1802.
Shelfmark
Maps K.Top.55.53.