Thornton Abbey London ; Tunbridge Wells : The Photochrom Co., Ltd., ca. 1890-1906 Thornton Abbey (Lincolnshire, England),Abbeys,Ruins,Great Britain England Lincolnshire

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Here's a #washwatercolour drawing by #18thcentury #disabled #Cumberland amateur artist, Christopher Machell (1747-1827), showing #ThorntonAbbey gatehouse in #Lincolnshire c.1785.

Machell lost an arm at the Battle of #BunkerHill near #Boston in 1775 during the #AmericanRevolutionaryWar. On many of his drawings you can see the pinholes used to secure the paper to a board so that he could work with one arm on the drawing.