Artist

Lewis Nockalls Cottingham

Lewis Nockalls Cottingham is a Romanticism artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.

Lewis Cottingham spent his life fixing up old churches, squinting at crumbling stone arches until he could sketch the exact curve of a Gothic window. He knew more about forgotten medieval churches than most priests. His 1842 drawing isn’t flashy—just careful lines that freeze a real building before it disappears. Tap this drawing if you’ve ever wondered what the inside of a 600-year-old church really looks like.

Works by Lewis Nockalls Cottingham

Collections represented

Victoria and Albert Museum

Museum

Victoria and Albert Museum

The Victoria and Albert Museum in the United Kingdom is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.8 million objects.

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