The Poultry Cross, Salisbury
George Brown
Category
Art / Prints
Date
1711 (pre)
Materials
Paper & Glass.
Measurements
110 x 100 mm
Place of origin
Salisbury
Order this imageCollection
Gunby Hall Estate, Lincolnshire
NT 638490
Summary
Print, etching, The Poultry Cross, Salisbury by George Brown with the three dimensional sundial as finial over the open arched gothic structure below. Taped and glazed with a suspension ring above. The original flying buttresses were removed in 1711. The present buttresses and look of the Cross dates from 1852–4, when the upper parts of the cross were rebuilt to the designs of the architect Owen Browne Carter
Provenance
1990, purchased from J Montgomery-Massingberd.
Marks and inscriptions
’Geo. Brown/ The Poultry Cross/ Salisbury’
Makers and roles
George Brown, engraver (printmaker)