Charter House, from the Play Ground
A large green fills the foreground with trees growing along the edge. Buildings of the Charterhouse are shown at left, with laundry maids laying out linens on the grass to dry as figures stroll nearby. The print was made to illustrate Ackdermann's "History of the Colleges," 1816.
The school was part of a the Charterhouse, a complex in Clerkenwell, London (now Islington) whose name derives 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.
The school was part of a the Charterhouse, a complex in Clerkenwell, London (now Islington) whose name derives 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
- Title: Charter House, from the Play Ground
- Engraver: Joseph Constantine Stadler (German, active London, 1780–1822)
- Artist: After William Westall (British, Hertford 1781–1850 London)
- Publisher: Rudolph Ackermann, London (British, active 1794–1832)
- Date: July 1, 1816
- Medium: Hand-colored etching and aquatint
- Dimensions: Plate: 10 × 11 7/8 in. (25.4 × 30.1 cm)
Sheet: 10 7/16 × 12 1/4 in. (26.5 × 31.1 cm) - Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917
- Object Number: 17.3.1167-123
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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