Francis Grose
A View of Naworth Castle in Cumberland in 1772
1772
Physical Qualities
Brush and ink and watercolor over graphite on two sheets of paper, Sheet: 136 × 192 mm. (5 3/8 × 7 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of John Beverley Riggs
Object Number
1999.701
Collection John Beverley Riggs, Wilmington, DE; purchased from Alice Dodge, probably 1960s.
Grose's Antiquities of England and Wales, vol. 1, 1783.
Signed: 1
Inscribed: RECTO: LR below image (ink): '10'; C below image (brown/black ink): 'A View of Naworth Castle in Cumberland in 1772.'. VERSO: descriptive text T & B written in ink & cut off at all sides; C (graphite, signed?): 'Plate 1. by Lerpiniere / F. Grose 1772' & below (erased graphite): 'Cumberland'.
Markings: none - illegible
