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Two sketches of St. Paul's Cross: study for Latimer Preaching at Pauls Cross
Sir George Hayter, 1792–1871; born and died London, England
x1984-430
Information
Title
Two sketches of St. Paul's Cross: study for Latimer Preaching at Pauls Cross
Maker
Medium
Brown ink
Dimensions
20.3 x 20.5 cm (8 x 8 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of George L. Small, Class of 1943
Object Number
x1984-430
Signatures
Signed in brown ink, lower right: G.H.
Watermark: [nude female (Venus) with drapery]
Inscription
in ink: This is the form | given in a print | in Harrisons history | of London, but it | appears to me | to be invention-- | Dr. Shaw preaching | 1587 | St Pauls cross | London | The Sketch of this celebrated pulpit is from | a Print in the Library of Magdalen Coll. Cambridge | being one of the Curiosities collected by Pepys. | Exhibited to the artist by Mr. Lodge. & copied | as Vignette frontispiece to Blunts Sketch of the | Reformation | A pulpit cross formed | of Timber, covered with lead | and mounted upon stone steps which | stood in the midst of the church yard of the | Cathedral: in which sermons were preached by | eminent divines every Sunday in the forenoon, when the Court, the | Magistrates of the CIty, and a vast concourse of people usually attend | =ed. | There is notice of its use as early as 1259, but it was not finished | in the form here exhibited until 1449, bu Kemp Bp of London, and it | finally destroyed by order of Parliament in 1643. Vid. Izaak Waltons life | of Mr Richard Hooker pp 194. | This description does not refer to the sketch over it, | but is also quoted in Seymours Histy of London p. 656 and as given by Stowe.
Culture
Materials
Gift of George L. Small
Two Sketches of Paul's Cross
Album containing 99 original drawings and 87 architecture, portrait, and costume studies of a documentary nature for the paintings Latimer Preaching at Paul's Cross and The Martyrdom of Ridley and Latimer.
- "Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1984," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 44, no. 1 (1985): p. 24-52., pp. 39–40 (illus.)
- "Sir George Hayter, "Latimer Preaching at Paul's Cross" and "The Martyrdom of Ridley and Latimer": paintings and related studies in the collection of the Art Museum," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 53, no. 1 (1994): p. 36-45., p. 36
