Cuthbert Bede
1827-1889
Bird's Eye View of Fotheringay
9 11/16 x 13 1/8 inches (246 x 333 mm)
Pen and black ink on brown tracing paper.
1984.16:4
Gift of Sir John Pope-Hennessy.
Notes
Study for an illustration in Edward Bradley's "Fotheringay, and Mary Queen of Scots...", London, 1886, following p. 18.
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed at upper center in pen and black ink, "CUTHBERT BEDE DELT FEBY 1856"; variously inscribed with title at upper center, legend at lower right, and topographical notations.
Associated names
Pope-Hennessy, John Wyndham, Sir, 1913-1994, former owner.
Bibliography
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twenty-First Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984-1986. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1989, p. 323.
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Century Drawings
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