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St. Magnus Church, Billingsgate

St. Magnus Church, Billingsgate

Artist: Sir Frank Short (English, 1857 - 1945)

Date: 1884
Medium: ink on paper
Dimensions:
Framed: 17 x 13 1/4 x 1 in. (43.2 x 33.7 x 2.5 cm)
Sheet: 14 7/16 x 11 in. (36.7 x 27.9 cm)
Plate Mark: 7 3/4 x 4 7/8 in. (19.7 x 12.4 cm)
Image: 7 1/4 x 4 1/2 in. (18.4 x 11.4 cm)
Credit Line:Museum Purchase
Object number: 1924.939.1

Showing the neighborhood on Thames Street near London Bridge. St. Magnus, with its distinctive steeple, was reconstructed by Christopher Wren after the Great Fire of London in 1666.

As head of the Engraving School at the Royal College of Art, South Kensington, Short had great influence on a younger generation of printmakers. He was elected to the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers in 1885, and took a prominent part in conducting its affairs. In 1910 he succeeded Sir Seymour Haden as president.

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