Dunfermline Abbey, Scotland - Hand-Colored Engraving by Le Keux - 1847
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Original 1847 steel engraving, hand-colored, with the south side of the refectory and the gatehouse of Dunfermline Abbey, in Scotland, taken from the ivy-covered ruins. Drawn by R. W. Billings and engraved by J. H. Le Keux, as lettered at the foot.
Original 1847 steel engraving, hand-colored, with the south side of the refectory and the gatehouse of Dunfermline Abbey, in Scotland, taken from the ivy-covered ruins. Drawn by R. W. Billings and engraved by J. H. Le Keux, as lettered at the foot.
It comes from The Baronial and Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Scotland by Robert William Billings, which William Blackwood & Sons published in Edinburgh between 1845 and 1852: the most ambitious illustrated survey devoted to Scottish medieval architecture. Dunfermline Abbey was a royal mausoleum and the burial place of Robert I of Scotland, Robert the Bruce.
Medium: Steel engraving, hand-colored.
Artist / after: Robert William Billings.
Engraver: John Henry Le Keux.
Date: 1847.
Source: The Baronial and Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Scotland, William Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh.
Dimensions: 11.4 x 8.4 in (29 x 21.3 cm).
Condition: Good overall. Paper somewhat toned in the margins, with light staining and small areas of wear along the lower and left edges; image clean and the coloring well preserved.
2005
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Original 1847 steel engraving, hand-colored, with the south side of the refectory and the gatehouse of Dunfermline Abbey, in Scotland, taken from the ivy-covered ruins. Drawn by R. W. Billings and engraved by J. H. Le Keux, as lettered at the foot.