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Byland Abbey, Yorkshire

image © Guy Peppiatt Fine Art | All Rights Reserved

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Date

1824

Artist

John Varley, I (1778-1842)

Collection

Guy Peppiatt Fine Art

Description

Watercolour over pencil heightened with gum arabic on laid paper
21.7 by 30.2 cm, 8 1/2 by 11 3/4 inches

Byland Abbey is six miles east of Thirsk, just south of the Yorkshire Moors. Once one of England's greatest monasteries, the abbey was dissolved in 1538. Its ruins still look much as they did during Varley's time, with the same arched entrance. The stained glass formerly in the abbey's beautiful west front inspired the design of York Minster's famous rose window.

Another view of Byland Abbey by Varley, dated 1808, is in the Yale Center for British Art and a further was sold at Sotheby's on 12th April 1995, lot 95.

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image © Guy Peppiatt Fine Art

Location

Byland Abbey, Coxwold, North Yorkshire, England

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Religious Buildings
Roads
Ruins

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Buildings & Architecture

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