Portrait drawings of (1) James Stowey and (2) John Carr

Item date: 1786

Grant Value: £2,800

Item cost: £2,800

Item cost pre-decimal: NULL

Item date acquired: 2008

Item institution: RIBA Architectural Library

Town/City: London

(1) A portrait drawing of the Exeter builder-architect James Stowey, signed 'C[harles] Coffin Nepos delt. Exeter Sept. 26 1786' ; (2) Engraver's drawing after a pencil portrait by George Dance (1741-1825) of the architect John Carr of York (1723-1807), the most important British architect based outside London in the second half of the 18th century.

Item Provenance

Sir Howard Colvin (1919-2007)