Randolph Caldecott

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Randolph Caldecott
1846-1886
Four Sketches of Visitors and Worshippers in a Church
Pen and black ink on paper.
8 3/4 x 7 inches (222 x 178 mm)
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.2267:27
Notes: 

One of a group of 35 travel drawings, sketches, and studies evidently done by Caldecott during a tour or tours of the continent and elsewhere.
Sheet formerly folded, with two sketches on each side of fold.
Title supplied by cataloger; attribution from Gordon Ray inventory.

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From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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Four sketches of scenes in a church interior, including a group of worshippers before an altar, a man and a woman consulting a book, a figure in a pulpit, and a young woman gazing up at a statue of a saint positioned on a pedastal.

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Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.

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