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[Canterbury Cathedral] Dean Fotherby.
[n.d., 1726.]
Mezzotint with line engraving, rare & fine. 210 x 350mm (8¼ x 13¾).
The tomb of Charles Fotherby (c. 1549-1619), Dean of Canterbury (1615-1619), in the Lady Chapel in the cathedral, published in John Dart's 'The History and Antiquities of the Cathedral Church of Canterbury'. A more recent history described it as 'a bone-encrusted tomb-chest [which] is a fine example of that obsessive early seventeenth-century morbidity which repelled later, more squeamish observers'.
Ex Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. Collinson, Ramsay & Sparks 'A History of Canterbury Cathedral'.
[Ref: 44155] £280.00
Mezzotint with line engraving, rare & fine. 210 x 350mm (8¼ x 13¾).
The tomb of Charles Fotherby (c. 1549-1619), Dean of Canterbury (1615-1619), in the Lady Chapel in the cathedral, published in John Dart's 'The History and Antiquities of the Cathedral Church of Canterbury'. A more recent history described it as 'a bone-encrusted tomb-chest [which] is a fine example of that obsessive early seventeenth-century morbidity which repelled later, more squeamish observers'.
Ex Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd. Collinson, Ramsay & Sparks 'A History of Canterbury Cathedral'.
[Ref: 44155] £280.00