[Low Bentham Font: Designs for a font cover]
Collection:CSM Museum & Study Collection
Date: 1889
Maker: William Richard Lethaby (1857-1931)
Dimensions:
Image: 186 x 214 mm (18.6 x 21.4 cm)
Sheet: 211 x 370 mm (21.1 x 37 cm)
Medium: Pencil and blue pencil on laid paper (watermark visible)
Object number: F.68.3
DescriptionDesign for a pomegranate for the font canopy of St. John the Baptist Church, Low Bentham, Lancaster. Shows an elevation and plan and a detail of the patterned edge. These designs (see also F.68.1 and .2) were largely influenced by an Italian book made during the late Renaissance, the "Hypnerotomachia Poliphili". It was a book which Lethaby described as "a collection of all the architectural wonders of the world".
