Chester Rows 1843: 2776

Materials used in production

Watercolour

Components of the work

Support composed of paper ( grey)

Techniques used in production

Watercolour : Watercolour on grey paper laid down on card (lower left corner of paper torn away)

Inscription or legends present

• Text: D. Swarbreck
• Location: Lower left
• Method of creation: Graphite
• Type: Signature

• Text: 1843
• Location: Lower left, following the above
• Method of creation: Graphite
• Type: Date

• Text: (from the Times of Tuesday May 14th, 1940 and the printed announcement of the death of Lilian wife of Robert Alfred Swarbrick)
• Location: Frame, verso
• Method of creation: Cutting

• Text: (Rev. F.C. Clare's name and address at S. Johns Vicarage Harpenden, Herts and dated in ink May 15th 1940) This drawing was found by me in the Luton Market in the year 1939. / It was in a broken frame without glass. The drawing was remounted / and reframed for me by W.H. Box, Wellington Street, Luton. / The name of the Artist is 'D.SWARBRECK' and the date 1843. The / death of a person of the name of Swarbrick announced in the TIMES / is recorded here as a matter of interest in an unfamiliar surname. / The subject is 'The Rows, Chester, which are thus described by / Camden / 'The houses are very fair built, and along the chief / streets are galleries or walking places they call / rows, having shops on both sides, through which a man / may walk dry from one end to the other / The rows are said dot date from 1331, George Borrow held the theory that 'these rows to which you ascend by stairs up narrow / passages were originally built for the security of the wares of / the principal merchants against the Welsh
• Location: Frame, verso
• Method of creation: Typescript on notepaper stuck down

Identification numbers

Accession number: 2776
Primary reference Number: 13781
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Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints