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Houses of Worship
Canterbury Cathedral, Kent, after T. M. Baynes, Antique Steel Engraving, 1837
Anno Domini MDCCCXXXVII1837
$225
€200 · £170
Original print, not a reproduction
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- Date
- 1837
- Technique
- Steel engraving
- Coloring
- Uncolored
- Condition
- Good. Good condition for its age. Bright sheet with very light toning and a few faint spots to the margins. Please review the images for further condition details.
- Faith
- Christianity
- Collection
- Houses of Worship
- Era
- 1800 to 1849, Travellers and the costume books
- Stock no.
- BG-14391-7
What the condition grades mean
- Excellent
- Bright and clean, with no faults worth mentioning.
- Very good
- Only light signs of age, such as faint toning.
- Good
- Normal signs of age for a sheet of this period: toning, some foxing, small marks or neat old repairs.
- Fair
- Clear faults such as staining, tears or repairs, priced to match.
Every fault we see is written in the condition note, and the whole sheet is shown uncropped in the photos.
This steel engraving shows Canterbury Cathedral seen along the street that runs past its south side, with tall timber framed and bow windowed houses on the left and a crenellated stone building on the right. The south flank of the cathedral fills the center of the view, with the pinnacled southwest tower and the richly carved south porch at left, the long run of buttressed nave and transept windows, and the great central tower known as Bell Harry rising above the roofs. Townspeople stroll in the foreground, a family group in fashionable dress at center and children playing at right, while birds wheel around the central tower under a bright, cloudy sky.
The plate is lettered "Drawn by T. M. Baynes" at lower left and "Engraved by S. Lacey" at lower right, with the title CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL, KENT. in open capitals and the imprint "Published 1837, by Geo. Virtue, 26, Ivy Lane." beneath.
Canterbury Cathedral is the mother church of the Anglican Communion and the seat of the Archbishop of Canterbury. Founded by Saint Augustine in 597 and rebuilt after the Norman Conquest, it became one of the great pilgrimage churches of Europe after the murder of Thomas Becket in 1170. The Perpendicular nave was completed around 1400, and Bell Harry tower, finished about 1500, gives the cathedral its unmistakable silhouette.
Thomas Mann Baynes (1794 to 1876) was a London topographical artist and lithographer, and George Virtue was among the most active publishers of engraved views of British towns and counties in the 1830s, issuing them in parts for a broad middle class public. The fine steel plate allowed crisp detail in the tracery and the figures, and this impression is clean and well printed.
Condition: Good condition for its age. Bright sheet with very light toning and a few faint spots to the margins. Please review the images for further condition details.
This is an original antique print, not a modern reproduction. This item is sold unframed. Any framed or interior images are shown for presentation and inspiration only, unless the listing explicitly states that the item is sold framed.
