Edward Dayes

KT514

Signed and dated on mount l.l.: E. Dayes 1791, pen and grey ink and watercolour with touches of bodycolour over traces of pencil on wove paper, on original laid paper mount

21 x 13.9 cm.; 8 ¼ x 5 ½ inches

Provenance

Sotheby’s, 25 January 1989, lot 54, where bought by

James Hall, his collection no. 23, until 2022

The Abbey was founded for the Cistercians between 1175 and 1178 by Hervey de Montemarisco, Marshall of Henry II, who became its first abbot. At the Reformation Henry VIII granted the Abbey to Sir Osborne Itchingham. The church is one of the longest Cistercian churches in Ireland.