Reconstruction sketches:
A stone figure of a knight at the British Museum (2019-20)
These reconstruction drawings were made for the study of a stone knight figure while I was at The Courtauld. I went to the British Museum to handle and examine the figure and wrote about its style, craft and possible original locations.
It's an exciting processes in art history, where you examine the object, date it, plunge into hundreds of images for stylistic comparison, reconstruct it, find out peculiar details that lead to its origins, study its provenance, run around churches in England measuring walls and alcoves where it might fit, compare the numbers and analyse everything you've got to come to a conclusion...
Pretty good non-fiction adventure if you ask me.
Bishop Wykeham's chapel, Winchester Cathedral
And if you were curious....
I believe this figure (circa 1400) belonged in the chantry chapel of bishop William Wykeham in Winchester Cathedral.
(the little red dot marks the spot)
And if you are really curious....
The slideshow below are the images that I used throughout the project, if you were looking to have a "mm-hmm" moment...
