Sketches for an Ecclesiastical Stall (recto and verso)
Medium
Graphite, pen and brown ink
Dimensions
sheet: 9 11/16 x 15 9/16 in. (24.6 x 39.5 cm)
Classification
Drawings|Ornament & Architecture
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Spencer Bickerton, 1933
Accession Number
33.73.81
Tags
Houses
About the Artist
Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin · 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...