One Thousand Years of Gothic Architecture: A Collection of Inspired Drawings
Artist: Stephen Wohleber

Explore Stephen Wohleber’s hand drawn architectural buildings from 10th to Mid-19th Century, each one described as though to be made as a reliquary, or decorative object in miniature, as though each were a life-size drawing of the intended structure. This 18th Century print depicts a Walpolian garden shrine with acute traces of Beckfordian Fontilism made of zinc with doors and window tracery of brass upon a base of finest porcelain, nicely glazed. The intensely brilliant chromolithographic colouration was added at a later date, somewhat towards the last quarter of the 19th century in an attempt to restore it to its originally supposed appearance.

Print 12 x 18 in., colour (artist bio printed on back)
*Unframed

Published: First Edition–February 2021
Original (1973): 10 x 13.5 India ink on rice paper
Paper: Felt Bright White 100lb Cover

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