- Creator:
- Vertue, George, 1684-1756, artist
- Published / Created:
- [between 1720 and 1756?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3581 v.1
- Collection Title:
- Volume 1, page 61. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Drawing of the western front of Chichester Cross, a 15th-century market cross that stands in the center of the city of Chichester
- Alternative Title:
- West front
- Description:
- Title devised by curator., Note in ink in upper left corner: The west front., Date supplied by cataloger., Sheet numbered "2" in upper right corner., Laid down on an ink line mount., Mounted on the following leaf (page 63) is a sheet on which an inscription about the erection and repair of Chichester Cross is reproduced in ink, beneath which is written "Inscription to west front"., and Mounted on page 61 in a volume of ca. 50 drawings that was assembled from works purchased by Horace Walpole at the Vertue sale of 1757. Now bound in red morocco, this volume has Walpole's manuscript title-page: Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue and others.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Chichester (England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Buildings, structures, etc
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [West front of Chichester Cross] [art original].
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