© Lambeth Palace Library
A View of Lambeth Palace
Artist: Jan Griffier I (1645? - 1718)
Location: Lambeth Palace Library
Date: 1663 - 1718
Materials: red chalk, traces of black lead on paper
Dimensions: 10 x 15 cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £1,811 (Total: £3,623)
Vendor: Bernard Quaritch Ltd
Review number: 4314 (1996)
Provenance:
Sotheby Mak Van Waay, Amsterdam, 16/11/81, lot 217; Sotheby's, London, 18/4/66, lot 26.
Description:
This drawing was almost certainly made on the spot and shows the two fifteenth-century towers of Lambeth Palace which overlook the river and the Great Hall rebuilt around 1663 to replace the medieval hall demolished during the Commonwealth period. Griffier also depicts a building between the Great Hall and Lollards Tower which was demolished by the architect Edward Blore in the 1820s.
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