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Samuel Buck
1696-1779
The East View of Arundel Castle
Pen and black ink and wash, over black chalk, on paper.
7 x 14 7/8 inches (177 x 377 mm)
Purchased as the gift of Paul Mellon and Helen S. Tucker.
1987.3
Notes:
The drawing was engraved and published by Samuel and Nathaniel Buck as plate 6 in the twelfth set of "The Most Remarkable Remains of Abbeys, Castles etc. to Found," 1737.
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Inscribed along upper edge, in pen and brown ink, "THE EAST VIEW OF ARUNDEL CASTLE, IN THE COUNTY OF SUSSEX".
Watermark: Fleur-de-lis in shield, surmounted by crown, over initials "WR", (Strasbourg lily).
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The Leger Galleries, Ltd., London.
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Associated names:
Tucker, Helen S., donor.
Mellon, Paul, donor.
Bibliography:
Bucks Antiquities or Venerable Remains of Above from Hundreds of Castles, Monasteries, Palaces etc. in England and in Wales, 1774, II, pl. 286.
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