拍品 22
  • 22

Axel Herman Haig 1835 - 1921

估價
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
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描述

  • Axel Herman Haig
  • st fin barre's cathedral, cork
  • watercolour
  • 69 by 52cm.; 27¼ by 20½in.

來源

William Burges, and thence by family descent to the present owner

展覽

Paris, Universal Exhibition, 1878.

拍品資料及來源

Haig executed the present work for William Burges, the architect appointed to re-design St Fin Barre's Cathedral in 1862 following a competition for the commission for which there were 63 entries.

The site of the cathedral has been a place of worship since the 7th Century, however, little remains of the medieval buildings, although a doorway in the boundary wall, stone basin and some carved stone heads can still be seen today. Since then a range of churches have stood on the site, the last being demolished in 1860 and was replaced by Burges's design.