Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

View from the Ramparts. St. Omer

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C. F. Tomkins
1798-1844

View from the Ramparts. St. Omer

ca. 1836.
9 15/16 x 7 5/16 inches (253 x 186 mm)
Brown ink and ink wash on paper.
1986.2136

Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.

Notes
Title from caption.
Drawing employed as the basis for a lithograph in J.R. Planche's: Continental Gleanings of unpublished scenery / drawn from the original sketches, by C.F. Tomkins ; and executed on stone, by J.S. Cooper. A. Richter & Co.: London, [1836].
Inscriptions/Markings
Artist's caption inscribed in ink below: View from the Ramparts. St. Omer.; signed at lower right: CF Tomkins.
Summary

Drawing shows a view of the town with the Notre-Dame Cathedral of Saint-Omer in the background and a group of women and children, some of whom appear to be engaged in doing laundry, in the foreground.

Associated names
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department