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George Marshall
Description
- George Marshall
- Perspective View of the inside of St Stephens Church in Walbrook, London
signed l.r.: George Marshall Delint and inscribed l.l.: St Christopher Wren Archt,, further inscribed l.c.: Perspective View of the inside of St Stephens Church in Walbrook London and further extensively inscribed on an original label attached to the backboard: Saint Stephens Church, Walbrook/Amongst the numerous churches with which the metropolis/is studded, Saint Stephen's, Walbrook, is, perhaps one of the most/beautiful, - indeed it is more celebrated on the continent, than/the Cathedral of St Pauls, or Westminster Abbey.- Although there/was a church in this Parish so early as the year 1135, yet the/sight on which the present elegant edifice is erected was not thus/occupied until the year 1429. The first stone of the new church/was laid in 1672 and in 1679 it was completed. The interior/of this church is allowed to be the most beautiful and matchless/architecture. Externally it displays no architectural attractions: but the interior is calculated to gratify every lover of the/art. The walls enclose an area of eighty two feet from east/to west, by fifty nine feet from north to south. The roof is/supported and the area divided by sixteen Corinthian columns, eighty of which sustain an hemispherical cupola, adorned with/acaissons and having a lantern light in the centre.
- watercolour over pencil heightened with touches of bodycolour, with original wash-line mount, in an 18th century frame
- ENGRAVED: by the artist
Condition
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