Old Gateway, Charterhouse
William Capon (1757 - 1827)
Height: 34.3 cm; Width: 25.0 cm;
Inscription, W. Capo. / Charterhouse / Old Gateway //
Acquisition (source, method, date)
Spooner, William Wycliffe (Mr); bequest; 1967
About this work
Trained as an architect and scene painter, William Capon’s antiquarian knowledge and skill as an architectural draughtsman enabled him to produce historically accurate, if somewhat old-fashioned topographical views. By Capon’s time the Charterhouse, a Carthusian priory founded near Smithfield in 1371, was both a school and a hospital for pensioners. The arched medieval gateway and figures here take centre stage, but it is the immaculately rendered brickwork and blue-fenced tree that capture the attention.
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