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George Cuitt (1779-1854) is often referred to as The English Piranesi
earned a living as a drawing master in Chester
(he taught the antiquarian author William Young Ottley)
composes ruins that are fermenting with vegetation
a turbulence that agitates the skies,
here Rievaulx and
Fountains Abbeys,
Yorkshire
Saxon Arch, St.John's Chester
etching plate 43 from Cuitt's collected works
Wanderings and Pencillings among ruins of the olden times, Nattall, London, 1848