Publisher/Manufacturer: Rupolph Ackermann, 101 Strand, London Publication Title: The History of the Colleges of Winchester, Eton and Westminster with the Charter-House, the schools of St. Paul 1816 Aquatint in black, with hand colour, on heavy white wove paper
304 x 252 mm.
A plate from Rudolph Ackermann's 'The History of the Colleges of Winchester, Eton and Westminster with the Charter-House, the schools of St. Paul's, Merchant Taylors, Harrow, and Rugby, and the free-school of Christ’s Hospital' of 1816
Interior view of the Chapel at Winchester College; foreground, a chequered tiled floor, benches / pews, choir stalls, books (Bibles?), wood panelling and cushions / kneelers; middleground, a raised church organ, three arched windows and a vaulted ceiling with bosses; background, an altar, two candlesticks, a framed painting and a large arch-shaped stain glassed window featuring Biblical figures. Dust-ground aquatint with extensive hand colour. Margins are dirty with some foxing and splashing
