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Creator:
Print made by Percy Thomas, 1846–1922
Title:
The Dining Hall of the Middle Temple
Part Of:

Collective Title: The Temple, London

Date:
1897
Materials & Techniques:
Etching; proof on laid paper
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:

Lettered inside plate, lower left: "Percy Thomas 1987"; lettered on verso, center: "THE DINING HALL OF THE | MIDDLE TEMPLE. | The interior of this beautiful Elizabethan Hall, of which the | exterior was depicted in a previous etching. The exquisite | proportions of the building, the massive carved oak screen, and the | timbered roof, combine to render this one of the crowning glories | of the Temple. Its general scale and arrangements are those of the | Manorial Dining Hall of the Middle Ages, still familiar to us in the | Colleges of our great-- the screen separating the Hall | itself from the Kitchen and Butteries"

Signed in graphite, lower left: "Percy Thomas"

Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art; Gift of John W. Davis
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1980.14.1
Classification:
Prints
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Access:
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Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:20216
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