Victoria Hine - "St Albans. High Altar" c.1890

Social History (Museum of St Albans)

2002.5035

Etching entitled "St Albans. High Altar", by Victoria S Hine showing the High Altar of St Albans Abbey and The Wallingford Screen behind it. The original Wallingford Screen was erected in 1484 by William of Wallingford, 47th abbot of St Albans Abbey, but destroyed during the Dissolution. The current screen is a Victorian copy. Victoria Hine lived for part of her life in St Albans. She was the daughter of Samuel David Colkett an artist of the Norwich school of painting, and married the watercolourist Harry Hine around 1875. She painted and etched landscapes and exhibited at the Royal Academy and other London galleries from 1859 until the 1890's. These are from a set of 10 etchings by Mrs Harry Hine "An artistic Record of the Cathedral and City of St Albans" -published with notes about the abbey and the town by her husband.

1890

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Amy Cooke

Cathedral and Abbey Church of St Alban, St Albans, Hertfordshire, UK, AL1 1BY

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Picturesque St. Albans

13/04/2006