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Demolition of Old Houses to the North of Westminster Abbey, 1800. Pen and brown ink with brush and watercolor, over traces of graphite, on tan wove paper, laid down on card.
Pen and brown ink with brush and watercolor, over traces of graphite, on tan wove paper, laid down on card · 20.2 × 26.8 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- Demolition of Old Houses to the North of Westminster Abbey
- Artist
- Thomas Rowlandson English, 1756-1827
- Date
- 1800
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink with brush and watercolor, over traces of graphite, on tan wove paper, laid down on card
- Dimensions
- 20.2 × 26.8 cm (8 × 10 9/16 in.)
- Credit line
- Clarence Buckingham Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Artist’s life 1756–1827
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.