A View of Lambeth Palace
Jan Griffier I
- Art Funded
- 1996
- Dimensions
- 10 x 15 cm
- Vendor
- Bernard Quaritch Ltd
This drawing was almost certainly made on the spot and shows the two fifteenth-century towers of Lambeth Palace which overlook the river and the Great Hall rebuilt around 1663 to replace the medieval hall demolished during the Commonwealth period.
Griffier also depicts a building between the Great Hall and Lollards Tower which was demolished by the architect Edward Blore in the 1820s.
Provenance
Sotheby Mak Van Waay, Amsterdam, 16/11/81, lot 217; Sotheby's, London, 18/4/66, lot 26.