Prayer desk
Medium
Oak
Dimensions
Overall (confirmed): 33 1/2 × 26 1/2 × 23 1/2 in. (85.1 × 67.3 × 59.7 cm)
Classification
Woodwork-Furniture
Culture
British
Department
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Gift of Irwin Untermyer, by exchange, 2015
Accession Number
2015.639
About the Artist
Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin|George Myers · 1812–1852
Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1812–1852) was a British architect, designer, and theorist whose fervent advocacy for Gothic architecture transformed Victorian Britain's built environment and established the intellectual foundations of the Gothic Revival movement. Born in London to the French architect and draughtsman Auguste Charles Pugin, he showed exceptional talent from childhood, producing de...