Archer, John Wykeham

Crypt entrances, tombs, gateways and fragments of medieval masonry are studied at close range in the prints by John Wykeham ...

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Crypt entrances, tombs, gateways and fragments of medieval masonry are studied at close range in the prints by John Wykeham Archer, the watercolourist, engraver and antiquarian artist who died in 1864. His London subjects include St Bartholomew's, St Mary Overie, Lambeth Palace, Bermondsey Abbey and the Charterhouse, along with Roman remains. Beyond the capital he drew the cathedrals of Canterbury, Wells and Salisbury, northern abbeys and Kenilworth. These published plates record surviving antiquities with a precision quite different from the broad picturesque landscapes common in the illustration of his day.

Crypt entrances, tombs, gateways and fragments of medieval masonry are studied at close range in the prints by John Wykeham Archer, the watercolourist, engraver and antiquarian artist who died in 1864. His London subjects include St Bartholomew's, St Mary Overie, Lambeth Palace, Bermondsey Abbey and the Charterhouse, along with Roman remains. Beyond the capital he drew the cathedrals of Canterbury, Wells and Salisbury, northern abbeys and Kenilworth. These published plates record surviving antiquities with a precision quite different from the broad picturesque landscapes common in the illustration of his day.

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