Domestic Architecture- South-east view of the Old house lately standing in Sweedon's Passage,Grub Street. Drawn in June 1791
John Thomas (Antiquity) Smith (London 1766 – London 1833)
Category
Art / Prints
Date
Jun 1791
Materials
Paper, Wood
Measurements
290 x 215 mm
Order this imageCollection
Gunby Hall Estate, Lincolnshire
NT 636843.7
Summary
Print, etching, Domestic Architecture- South-east view of the Old house lately standing in Sweedon's Passage,Grub Street. Drawn in June 1791 by John Thomas (Antiquity) Smith (London 1766 – London 1833). One of a set of ten etchings by J.T.Smith of Sacred and Domestic Architecture in black gilt frames with similar mounts; each engraving apppended with a descriptive text and date of drawing. g) 'Domestic Architecture- South-east view of the Old house lately standing in Sweedon's Passage,Grub Street. Drawn in June 1791'. Further details given. The ramshackle half timbered building with cobbled court before and figures gathered around one with a placard proclaiming Whittington's Cat.
Provenance
1944, gifted to the National Trust by Field Marshal Sir Archibald and Lady Montgomery Massingberd.
Makers and roles
John Thomas (Antiquity) Smith (London 1766 – London 1833), engraver (printmaker)