Title(s)

Gezicht op de ruïne van de Saint Andrews Cathedral
Ruins of St. Andrews Cathedral (title on object)

Object type

• photomechanical print
• page

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-186-4

Inscriptions / marks

• inscription: ‘“The poorest peassant gives an angry frown, To see such noble buildings crumbling down; Whose fragments yet above your barns arise: In silent majesty athwart the skies.”’

Artist

• photographer: Thomas Rodger
• Sawyer's (mentioned on object)

Place

Saint Andrews

Dating

c. 1866 - in or before 1876

Material

• paper

Technique

collotype

Measurements

height 97 mm × width 130 mm

What

• ruin of church, monastery, etc.

Where

• Saint Andrews Cathedral

Credit line

• Purchased with the support of the Mondriaan Stichting, the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, the VSBfonds, the Paul Huf Fonds/Rijksmuseum Fonds and the Egbert Kunstfonds

Acquisition

purchase 2001

Copyright

Public domain

Is part of

• Destiny and other poems (RP-F-2001-7-186)