Room Leading to the Chapel, Knowle, Kent

Room Leading to the Chapel, Knowle, Kent by Joseph Nash

Medium

Watercolor and gouache, with touches of brush and black ink, heightened with white gouache, over graphite on cream wove paper

Dimensions

33.6 × 48.7 cm (13 1/4 × 19 3/16 in.)

Classification

watercolor

Department

Prints and Drawings

Museum

Art Institute of Chicago

Accession Number

39246

About the Artist

Joseph Nash · 18091878

Joseph Nash (1809–1878) was a British watercolorist and lithographer whose richly detailed depictions of English medieval and Tudor architecture established him as one of the most accomplished architectural illustrators of the Victorian era. Born in Great Marlow, Buckinghamshire, Nash trained under Augustus Charles Pugin, the distinguished architectural draughtsman and father of the Gothic Revival...

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