The State Opening of Parliament in the Rebuilt House of Lords
Joseph Nash
1847
Medium
watercolor and gouache over graphite on heavy wove paper
Dimensions
sheet: 39.9 x 47.7 cm (15 11/16 x 18 3/4 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Accession Number
2008.71.1
About the Artist
Joseph Nash · 1809–1878
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...