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Print made by Percy Thomas, 1846–1922, British, The Dining Hall of the Middle Temple, 1897
- Title:
- The Dining Hall of the Middle Temple
- Part Of:
- Date:
- 1897
- Materials & Techniques:
- Etching; proof on laid paper
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered inside plate, lower left: "Percy Thomas 1987"; lettered on verso, center: "THE DINING HALL OF THE | MIDDLE TEMPLE. | The interior of this beautiful Elizabethan Hall, of which the | exterior was depicted in a previous etching. The exquisite | proportions of the building, the massive carved oak screen, and the | timbered roof, combine to render this one of the crowning glories | of the Temple. Its general scale and arrangements are those of the | Manorial Dining Hall of the Middle Ages, still familiar to us in the | Colleges of our great-- the screen separating the Hall | itself from the Kitchen and Butteries"
Signed in graphite, lower left: "Percy Thomas"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art; Gift of John W. Davis
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1980.14.1
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:20216
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