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The ruins of St Radegund's Abbey, founded near Dover in 1192–93 are one of the largest monuments of their kind in the county of Kent. In 1590 the abandoned and dilapidated buildings were acquired by a certain Simon Edolph who converted one into a dwelling and some of the others for farm use. The pictorial source for the depiction was an engraving from the second volume of a well-known publication - "Antiquities" by the local historian and amateur artist Francis Grose. The engraving was made by James Mason in 1772 from Grose's own drawing. Despite their long history, the ruins of St Radegund's retained the stern dignity of Romanesque architecture. Thanks to the skills of the painter the depiction lost nothing of their grandeur and monumentality when inscribed into the narrow strip between the rim and the base of the sauce vessel from the Green Frog Service. |
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