West End of St Alban's Abbey

Solomon Alexander Hart, RA (1806-1881)

August 1831

Pencil and watercolour on wove paper

249 mm x 167 mm

Collection of the Royal Academy of Arts

Object number 03/7346

Bequeathed by Richard Phené Spiers, 1916

This is an example of the kind of study which Hart was making for the publisher Charles Knight in the 1830s, for wood-engravings. These were used to illustrate the type of topographical works that were so popular at that time.

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