Description

Identification note: Note in pencil on the back of the card re duplicates: 1983.1008, Vol 1 Hist of Wilts; .3361, .3372,[deaccessioned December 2004 - see above] .3365, and .3362, all [Goddard Room] File; .1206, Vol C, Safe; .3974, Wiltshire Magazine

Identification note: catalogue card has "The plate is engraved - To Joseph Gandy Esq Architect and ARA who has manifested great taste and Science in his architectural drawings and designs. J Britton" on the back. Joseph Michael Gandy is the great-great-great grandfather of Virginia Novarra, the volunteer who computerised the whole of the catalogue of the Museum's Wiltshire topographical collection of paintings, prints and drawings, creating over 6400 individual computer entries, and who also created and computerised a biographical index of all the artists represented in the Museum's Art Collection. Print number 1983.3372 was presented to Ms Novarra by the Society, in December 2004, in recognition of her work as a volunteer with the Art Collection in the years 1997-2004.

Identification note: duplicate : 1983.1253; 1983.3361; 1983.3372

Summary: copper engraving, St John's church, Devizes, engraved by John Smith from a drawing by J C Smith, pub. Longman and Co, Taylor and Britton