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The Roman wall at York

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Date

1683

Artist

Martin Lister (1639-1712)

Collection

The Royal Society

Description

Landscape view of York city wall, with multiangular tower and St Mary's Abbey Church ruins. Inscribed below in ink: "an exact view of the ruines of a piece of Roman Wall & multangular Tower at Yorke. 1683." Original plate illustration for the paper "Some observations upon thre Ruins of a Roman Wall and Multangular Tower at York", by Martin Lister, Philosophical Transactons of the Royal Society, vol.13 no.149, pp.237-242.