Lot 118
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Charles Gore 1729-1807

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Description

  • Charles Gore
  • Views of Pevensey Castle, Sussex
  • two, one signed l.r.: Pevensey Castle taken by Charles Gore Esq 1781/NB There is a Ditch round the inner fortification and further inscribed with colour notes, the other inscribed u.r.: Pevensey Castle and also further inscribed with notes
  • watercolour over pencil on laid paper

Provenance

Sir Bruce Ingram (L.1405a)

Catalogue Note

Pevensey Castle was built soon after the Norman Conquest on the River Ashburn near Pevensey Bay, four miles north east of Eastbourne and twelve miles south west of Hastings