Lot 118: CHARLES GORE 1729-1807

VIEWS OF PEVENSEY CASTLE, SUSSEX

measurements note
one 19 by 49 cm., 7 1/2 by 19 1/4 in., the other 14 by 50.5 cm., 5 1/2 by 20 in.

two, one signed l.r.: Pevensey Castle taken by Charles Gore Esq 1781/NB There is a Ditch round the inner fortification and further inscribed with colour notes, the other inscribed u.r.: Pevensey Castle and also further inscribed with notes

watercolour over pencil on laid paper

Quantity: 2

PROVENANCE

Sir Bruce Ingram (L.1405a)

NOTE

Pevensey Castle was built soon after the Norman Conquest on the River Ashburn near Pevensey Bay, four miles north east of Eastbourne and twelve miles south west of Hastings