Original engraving of the ruins of St Agatha's monastery (today Easby Abbey) in Yorkshire, with the Gothic doorway overgrown with vegetation and a walker in the foreground. Lettered below: "Pub.d July 22, 1785 by S. Hooper" and "Sparrow sculp.", print no. 2 of the series.
Original engraving of the ruins of St Agatha's monastery (today Easby Abbey) in Yorkshire, with the Gothic doorway overgrown with vegetation and a walker in the foreground. Lettered below: "Pub.d July 22, 1785 by S. Hooper" and "Sparrow sculp.", print no. 2 of the series.
From Francis Grose's The Antiquities of England and Wales, published in London by Samuel Hooper, the great survey of British ruins and monuments of the last third of the 18th century.
Medium: Copper engraving
Engraver / lithographer: Sparrow
Date: 1785
Source: London, S. Hooper
Dimensions: 9.6 x 7.3 in (24.5 x 18.5 cm)
Condition: Good, with the paper somewhat browned; the sheet is mounted on a paper support.