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Hockley Abbey, Birmingham

1842 · Hockley, Birmingham

Painting of an ivy-covered house with a ruined Gothic arcade and a pinnacled turret, with cattle grazing in front. — Edward Orlando Bowley, 1842. Birmingham Museums Trust via Art UK and Wikimedia Commons · Public domain · Select the picture to zoom and pan.

E. O. Bowley’s painting of Hockley Abbey in 1842, by then thick with ivy: Richard Ford’s sham ruin, built of furnace slag about 1779.

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