A Telescope view of Beeston from Tabley, Cheshire
A Telescope view of Beeston from Tabley, Cheshire
;F.C. Winby;Acquired from his son by Thos. Agnew and Sons, London This shows the Peckforton Hills and the ruins of Beeston Castle, situated on a rocky crag high above the Cheshire Plain. The church in the foreground with its distinctive steep spire is probably that of St Mary's Astbury on the far eastern side of the Cheshire Plain which may explain Devis's description of it being a 'telescope view'.There are four oil painting at Tabley House by Devis, one of which has the same view in the background.){kind=link}
ANTHONY DEVIS
Preston 1729-1817 Albury
A Telescope view of Beeston from Tabley, Cheshire
Signed with initials lower left and inscribed with title under mount
Pen and grey ink and watercolour over pencil on laid paper
244 x 375 mm., 9 ½ x 14 ¾ in.
Provenance:
John Trower (1755-1840);
F.C. Winby;
Acquired from his son by Thos. Agnew and Sons, London
This shows the Peckforton Hills and the ruins of Beeston Castle, situated on a rocky crag high above the Cheshire Plain. The church in the foreground with its distinctive steep spire is probably that of St Mary's Astbury on the far eastern side of the Cheshire Plain which may explain Devis's description of it being a 'telescope view'.
There are four oil painting at Tabley House by Devis, one of which has the same view in the background.