Glastonbury [Sketch of staircase]
Collection:CSM Museum & Study Collection
Date: [1881]
Maker: William Richard Lethaby (1857-1931)
Dimensions:
Image: 205 x 128 mm (20.5 x 12.8 cm)
Sheet: 205 x 128 mm (20.5 x 12.8 cm)
Medium: Pencil, watercolour and red pencil on laid paper
Object number: F.133
DescriptionIt seems possible that this small sketch of a staircase (probably from an ecclesiastical building) was made during Lethaby's Tour of the West Country in 1881. This journey was made possible when Lethaby (aged 24) won the Pugin Travelling Scholarship, setting out to study English mediaeval architecture and "buildings designed on mediaeval principles". He would probably have visited Glastonbury during this tour.
