Old Houses, Exeter, demolished for St Edmund’s Church c1870
English School townscape ‘Old Houses, Exeter’, c.1850. These houses were later demolished to make way for St Edmund’s Church c.1870. The painting depicts the edge of the River Exe flowing under three arches of the Exe Bridge, with houses on the bridge and on the river bank, St Edmund’s Church can be seen in the top left. On the river there are many swans.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 69/1929/2
- Category
- Fine Art
- Collection Class
- Paintings
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Common Name
- Old Houses, Exeter, demolished for St Edmund’s Church c1870
- Simple Name
- painting
- Period Classification
- Victorian (1837-1901)
- Production Country
- United Kingdom: England
- Production Person Surname
- English School
- Production Year Low
- 1840
- Production Year High
- 1860
