Descriptions

William Widgery used Dartmoor crosses as dramatic focal points in several paintings. In 1887, the year of Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee, he built a granite cross on Bray Tor, near Lydford to celebrate the occasion.

This object is not on display.

Inscription

bottom right signed & dated W Widgery 1869

verso stretcher ink Wm Widgery

verso stretcher remanant of label in ink handwritten Granite Cross, Dartmoor, To whom, in days long flown, the suppliant knee In trembling homage bow’d W Widgery, 87 South Str Exeter