Sketches, Volume one
Medium
Ink and wash and graphite
Dimensions
15 1/4 x 10 3/4 in. (38.7 x 27.3 cm)
Classification
Albums|Prints|Ornament & Architecture
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1935
Accession Number
35.33.1
Tags
Art Historical Context
Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin's *Sketches, Volume One* (1833–45) offers a captivating window into the mind of one of the 19th century's most passionate advocates for Gothic Revival architecture. This intimate album, measuring 15¼ × 10¾ inches and crafted in ink, wash, and graphite, captures Pugin's meticulous observations of ornament and architectural details. Housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Drawings and Prints department, it reflects his fervor for reviving medieval forms amid Britain's industrial age. Pugin, a prolific architect and designer best known for collaborating on the P...
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...