Exeter as seen from the Canal Basin
The Canal, first constructed in the 1560s, was enlarged over the centuries. By the 1830s the Basin was at its most developed, when large warehouses were built along the quayside. In the centre, to the left of the Cathedral, are the buildings of Colleton Crescent, built between 1802 and 1814. To the left of the Cathedral is St Michael’s church, completed in 1867 and on the far right, the new St Leonard’s Church, completed two years before this watercolour.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 135/1973
- Category
- Fine Art
- Collection Class
- Drawings
- Medium
- watercolour on paper
- Common Name
- Exeter as seen from the Canal Basin
- Simple Name
- drawing
- Inscription Transcription
- Arthur Shelley 1886
- Period Classification
- Victorian (1837-1901)
- Production Town
- Torquay
- Production County
- Devon
- Production Country
- United Kingdom: England
- Production Date
- 1886
- Production Person Initials
- Arthur
- Production Person Surname
- Shelley
- Production Year Low
- Production Year High
