Original 1810 copper engraving of the interior of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre at Northampton: the thick cylindrical pier of the Romanesque rotunda in the foreground and, beyond the pointed arches, the nave with its timber roof. Drawn by Samuel Prout and engraved by Thompson.
Original 1810 copper engraving of the interior of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre at Northampton: the thick cylindrical pier of the Romanesque rotunda in the foreground and, beyond the pointed arches, the nave with its timber roof. Drawn by Samuel Prout and engraved by Thompson.
It is one of the four medieval round churches surviving in England, built about 1100 by a crusader in imitation of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. The lower margin gives the publisher: Wm Clarke, New Bond Street, 2 April 1810.
Medium: Copper engraving
Artist / after: Samuel Prout (1783-1852)
Engraver / lithographer: Thompson
Date: 2 April 1810
Source: William Clarke, New Bond Street, London
Dimensions: 8.9 x 11.1 in (22.5 x 28.2 cm)
Condition: Good. Paper somewhat toned and cockled at the edges; the image clean and strongly printed.