South African and International Art, Decorative Arts and Jewellery
Online-Only Auction, 1 - 8 April 2019
Works on Paper
About this Item
signed; inscribed with the title and 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Cunel Place' on the reverse of the artwork; inscribed with the artist's name, the title 'Bundon Abbey (sic) on an Everard Read gallery label adhered to the reverse and with the title 'Bundon Abbey (sic) and (Tesse of the D'Urbervilles, Cunel Place) on the framing sheet
Notes
Bindon Abbey was a Cistercian monastery in Dorset, England. It was abandoned after the grounds passed into private ownership in the 1500s and only the ruins now remain. The building depicted in this artwork is actually Bindon Abbey House, a Gothic-style mansion built on the property by the Weld family between 1794 and 1798. The abbey ruins are mentioned in Thomas Hardy's novel Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891).
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