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Auction House: Christie's
Auction Location: USA
Auction Date: 2009
Description: Carl Gustave Carus Leipzig 1789-1869 Dresden
Tintern Abbey
oil on canvas
23½ x 35½ in. 61.5 x 91.5 cm.
Notes: Tintern Abbey was founded by Walter de Clare, Lord of Chepstow, on 9 May 1131. It was the first Cistercian foundation in Wales, and only the second in all of Britain. Now a magnificent ruin, Tintern Abbey has inspired a number of artistic creations, among them Wadsworth's poem Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey and several paintings by J.M.W. Turner, R.A.
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