Cross at Chagford
William Widgery used Dartmoor crosses as dramatic focal points in several paintings. In 1887, the year of Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee, he built a granite cross on Bray Tor, near Lydford to celebrate the occasion.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- K230
- Category
- Fine Art
- Collection Class
- Paintings
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Common Name
- Cross at Chagford
- Simple Name
- painting
- Inscription Transcription
- W Widgery 1869; Wm Widgery; Granite Cross, Dartmoor, To whom, in days long flown, the suppliant knee In trembling homage bow’d W Widgery, 87 South Str Exeter
- Period Classification
- Victorian (1837-1901)
- Production Town
- Exeter
- Production County
- Devon
- Production Country
- United Kingdom: England
- Production Date
- 1869
- Production Person Initials
- William
- Production Person Surname
- Widgery
- Production Year Low
- Production Year High
