Details
A Regency shellwork, wood and silk figure
of the prelate and reformer Thomas Cranmer, shown seated, wearing fur trimmed robes and a slouch cap, reading from a volume supported by further volumes, on a table within a gazebo surmounted by a faux clock with lion supporters, the gazebo heightened with mica, in an ebonised and glazed shadow box, the top carved with the name and date R.B. ROOKE. 1817 -- 13½in. x 14¾in. (34.3 x 37.5cm), overall
of the prelate and reformer Thomas Cranmer, shown seated, wearing fur trimmed robes and a slouch cap, reading from a volume supported by further volumes, on a table within a gazebo surmounted by a faux clock with lion supporters, the gazebo heightened with mica, in an ebonised and glazed shadow box, the top carved with the name and date R.B. ROOKE. 1817 -- 13½in. x 14¾in. (34.3 x 37.5cm), overall
Literature
James Ayres, English Naive Painting 1750-1900, Thames and Hudson, London and N.Y. 1981. Pl. 137.