Samuel Buck
1696-1779
The East View of Arundel Castle
7 x 14 7/8 inches (177 x 377 mm)
Pen and black ink and wash, over black chalk, on paper.
1987.3
Purchased as the gift of Paul Mellon and Helen S. Tucker.
Notes
The drawing was engraved and published by Samuel and Nathaniel Buck as plate 6 in the twelfth set of "The Most Remarkable Remains of Abbeys, Castles etc. to Found," 1737.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed along upper edge, in pen and brown ink, "THE EAST VIEW OF ARUNDEL CASTLE, IN THE COUNTY OF SUSSEX".
Watermark: Fleur-de-lis in shield, surmounted by crown, over initials "WR", (Strasbourg lily).
Watermark: Fleur-de-lis in shield, surmounted by crown, over initials "WR", (Strasbourg lily).
Associated names
Tucker, Helen S., donor.
Mellon, Paul, donor.
Mellon, Paul, donor.
Bibliography
Bucks Antiquities or Venerable Remains of Above from Hundreds of Castles, Monasteries, Palaces etc. in England and in Wales, 1774, II, pl. 286.
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Century Drawings
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