Netley Abbey on Southampton

Accession Number ART90377.001
Collection type Art
Measurement sheet: 18 x 11.5 cm
Object type Work on paper
Physical description pencil on paper
Maker Bolton, Frederick Charles
Place made United Kingdom: England, Hampshire, Southampton
Date made 1919
Conflict Period 1910-1919
First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: AWM Licensed copyright

Description

Depicts the famous ruins of Netley Abbey, which has long appealed to artists, poets and dramatists. In the village of Netley, near Southampton in Hampshire, it was originally a medieval monastry founded in 1239 for Cistercian monks (Roman Catholic).