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View of the City Walls, York

image © Guy Peppiatt Fine Art | All Rights Reserved

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Date

July 1791

Artist

John White Abbott (1764-1851)

Collection

Guy Peppiatt Fine Art

Description

Pen and grey ink and grey washes on laid paper. This shows a view of the site of the Dominican Friary at Toft Green to the south of the city of York. The drawing is presumably an on-the-spot drawing executed on his visit to the city in July 1791. It would appear to be unfinished however as White Abbott has omitted the Minster which stands on the horizon behind the tower. A finished version of this view by White Abbott is one of four York views in York City Art Gallery (see York through the Eyes of the Artist, exhibition catalogue, 1990, p.33, no. 20, illustrated).

The site of the Dominican Friary which was dissolved in the 1530s became a nursery in the possession of the Telford family until 1816 when the land was sold to a Quaker family.

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image © Guy Peppiatt Fine Art

Location

Roman Walls, York, England

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