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Albury Rectory

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Date

3 September, 1831

Artist

Vice-Admiral Lord Mark Robert Kerr (1776-1840)

Collection

Private Collection

Acknowledgements

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Description

Initialled: "MRK". The inscription contains a rhyme relating to the 17th-century owner and developer of Rycote Park, Sir Montague Bertie. Montague Bertie employed Capability Brown to redesign the Park and this may refer to his work demolishing old trees as part of this.
Inscribed, upper right: "Ancient Prophecy of this Oak / Each time the White Owl ceaseth here to to dwell / Hark & you'll hear a Bertie's funeral knell / Ding dong Bell! / Ding-dong Bell! / MRK comt: et script.".
Collective Title: From the first of three bound volumes containing sketches by Vice-Admiral Lord Mark Robert Kerr (1776-1840).

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Courtesy of a private collector

Location

Rycote Park, Albury, Thame, Oxfordshire, England

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