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The Charter House

Publisher (?) Henry Overton I British
1720–50
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This bird's eye view over London's Charterhouse and grounds shows the bowling green behind the chapel backed by a "the Wilderness." The title appears in a banderole at the top of the image. The complex in Clerkenwell, London (now Islington), takes its name from a Carthusian priory founded there in 1371 and dissolved by Henry VIII in 1537. The site was largely rebuilt in the 1540s into a large Tudor courtyard house. When the wealthy businessman Thomas Sutton bought the property in 1611, he used it to establish a school and an almshouse (a retirement home for male pensioners), institutions depicted here. An almshouse still occupies the site but the school moved to Godalming, Surrey in 1872.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: The Charter House
  • Publisher: (?) Henry Overton I (British, 1676–1751)
  • Date: 1720–50
  • Medium: Etching
  • Dimensions: Sheet (trimmed and inset): 6 5/8 × 8 3/8 in. (16.9 × 21.2 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917
  • Object Number: 17.3.1166-183
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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