Caen Stone Canopy

Created by Earley and Powells (later Earley and Co.)

Date: March 1861
Usually date of exhibition rather than production

Object class: architecture (building and structural components)

Object type: canopy

Material: stone - marble, stone - limestone - caen stone

Technique: carved

Description: 'Caen Stone Canopy, richly carved and crocketed - supported on polished marble shafts and alabaster tabernacle', £50 0s. 0d.

Notes: See also two other commissions for the same chapel, invoiced during the same time period: Two Caen Stone Niches, with Figures, £100 0s. 0d., and A figure of St Elizabeth in Portland Stone, £25 0s. 0d. Total: £175 0s. 0d.

Citing this record

'Caen Stone Canopy', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/object.php?id=msib3_1208778249, accessed 21 Mar 2023]