Canterbury Cathedral

Location

Country: Korea, Republic of (South Korea)
City: Seoul
Place: British Embassy

One of the most famous Christian structures in England, the cathedral of the Archbishop of Canterbury in Kent, emerges gracefully in this print after John George Wood. The cathedral was founded in 597, and completely rebuilt in the 11 th century. The view shown here is of the east end which was enlarged during the 12th century and rebuilt in the Gothic style with extensions to accommodate the pilgrims visiting the shrine of archbishop Thomas Becket who was murdered in the cathedral in 1170.

William Green was born in Manchester in 1761. He began his career as a surveyor and moved to London to study engraving. He later settled in the Lake District, the subject of many of his works. He can probably be identified as the same Wililam Green who exhibited landscape paintings at the Royal Academy between 1797 and 1801. He died in Ambleside in 1823.

Places

England, Canterbury Cathedral, Canterbury, Kent

Subjects

topography, tree, dog, boy, man, woman, girl, walking stick, begging, stone wall, path, gate, church, cathedral, tower

Materials & Techniques

aquatint, colour aquatint

Artist

John George Wood (1768 - 1838)
William Green (1760 - 1823)

Title

Canterbury Cathedral

Date

published 1 February 1800

Medium

Colour aquatint

Acquisition

Purchased from F R Meatyard, July 1947

GAC number

345