A Ruined Castle (after Charles Langton Massingberd)
James Burrell Smith (1822 - London 1897)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
Unknown
Materials
Paper, wood, glass
Measurements
330 x 505 mm
Order this imageCollection
Gunby Hall Estate, Lincolnshire
NT 636836
Summary
Watercolour drawing by J Burrell Smith after a sketch by Charles Langton Massingberd of a ruined castle.Watercolour,according to a label on reverse which is partially destroyed,is of a scene from 'The Bride of Lammermoor' by Sir walter Scott. A ruined arch with castellations above on a rocky eminence over the sea with a lone female figure standing before the arch centrally. a gibbet below to left,seagulls circling the stormy sky. Giltwood frame.
Provenance
1990, purchased from J Montgomery-Massingberd.
Makers and roles
James Burrell Smith (1822 - London 1897), publisher after Charles Langton-Massingberd (c.1816 - 1887), publisher