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THOMAS MATTHEW ROOKE, R.W.S. (LONDON 1842-1942 NORTHAMPTON)
View of the High Street, Margate, Kent
inscribed and dated 'High St. Margate from top/ Oct 64' (verso)
pencil and grey wash heightened with white on paper
638 x 738 in. (16.3 x 18.8 cm.)
Exhibited
London, Martyn Gregory, Thomas Matthew Rooke RWS 1842-1942, cat. 11, 1975, no. 5a.
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Rooke began his career as a designer for Morris & Co, and was studio assistant to Sir Edward Burne-Jones from 1868-1898. This early drawing of Margate is quite different from his later, much more decorative work.

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