PAINTINGS ON THE SOUTH WALL OF THE CHANCEL 1838 ANTIQUE LITHOGRAPH

Original 1838 18 1/2 inch x 12 3/8 inch Hand-Coloured reprint of the 1808 Lithograph Titled THE CHAPEL OF THE TRINITY, STRATFORD UPON AVON IN WARWICKSHIRE .

Paintings on the South Wall of the Chancel.
The Painting M is an angel, holding a shield, charged with the elements of the Holy Communion, a chalice and a wafer, surrounded by rays of glory.
The Painting N represents what were called the Five Wounds, -the heart of the Saviour as struck by the spear, and his hands and feet as pierced by nails.

Arms Stained in Glass in the Windows / Copied from Dugdale’s Warwickshire

• France and England quarterly
• Barry Azure and Gules, on a chevron Or three roses of the Second, in chief point a mitre of the Third.
• Gules, three stag’s heads couped Or.
• Quarterly: 1. Sable, on a cross engrailed Or five pellets, within a border engrailed of the Second: Greville; 2. Ermine, a fess checky Or and Azure, Arden; 3. Quarterly per fess dancette Argent and Azure, Acton; 4. Gules, billette Or, a saltire Vaire, Champernon. These were the arms of Greville, “an ancient Gentleman,” who, as Leland says, lived at Milcote, on the right bank of the Avon, a mile lower than Stratford.

Inlaid tile in the pavement
The arms on a tile in the pavement, a chevron between three martlets, are unknown.

Lettered at the foot of the page: “Drawn, Etched & Published July 18 1808 Fisher, Hoxton”.

Drawn and Engraved by Thomas Fisher (1772 - 1836). Amateur painter, engraver and early lithographer.

In 1804 a scheme of wall paintings were discovered during restoration works in the Guild Chapel at Stratford-upon-Avon. They depicted scenes such as the Legend of the Discovery of the True Cross, the Last Judgement, Saint George slaying a Dragon, the Dance of Death and the martyrdom of Saint Thomas Beckett. Thomas Fisher, an English antiquary, produced coloured drawings of the frescos when they were discovered and published them in 1807. They were soon afterwards whitewashed or destroyed. In 1809 Fisher re-issued these plates along with facsimiles of original documents he had found during further investigations. Though it was Fisher’s intention to publish letterpress with all his plates, a stipulation of the 1818 Copyright Act regarding legal deposit requirements prevented him from doing so. He got around this by publishing his research in an 1835 edition of The Gentleman’s Magazine, then edited by the antiquary and publisher John Gough Nichols. Two years after Fisher’s death Nichols reprinted a luxury edition of the original plates, finally with letterpress, and featuring new engravings and facsimiles of previously unpublished material.

From ‘Ancient Allegorical, Historical, and Legendary Paintings, In Fresco, Discovered in the Summer of 1804, on the Walls of the Chapel of the Trinity, belonging to the Gilde of the Holy Cross, at Stratford-Upon-Avon’ published by Henry George Bohn, 4 York Street, Covent Garden, London. 1838.

Plate size 13 7/8 inch x 9 3/4 inch

The lithograph is in very good condition with minor age related toning. Reverse side blank.