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Leaf from a sketchbook with drawings of old buildings in Lewisham and Blackheath

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Date

January 17th and February 1871

Artist

John Gilbert (1817-1897)

Collection

Royal Academy of Arts' Collection

Image Link

https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/work-of-art/leaf-from-a-sketchbook-with-drawings-of-old-buildings-in-lewisham-and

Description

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Descriptive Medium

Pen and ink and watercolour on wove paper

Image Licence

All Rights Reserved

Image Credit

Courtesy of the Royal Academy of Arts' Collection

Location

Crooms Hill, Greenwich, London, England

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Medium

Tags

Cottages
Buildings

Category

Buildings & Architecture

TWW Comment

Located to the site of the top image. An inscription describes it as "a reminiscence of old Stable Buildings on Grooms Hill, Blackheath, pulled down Feby 1871" and dates it to "Jany 17th 1871". The bottom image is inscribed "One of the [four?] 'bits' [remaining?] of Old Lewisham. Feby 1871" with a note suggesting the building has been "pulled down".

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