St. Mary's Abbey, York, John Cotman, artist, 1803-1805, York, St Mary's Abbey, Yorks is a fine pencil drawing of the ruins of this large abbey building surrounded by trees and other foliage. In the lower foreground is the figure of a woman spinning wool. Her presence gives some sense of the scale of the ruined abbey

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