page_title: Samuel Hieronymus Grimm
section_title: Role as a recording historian
hierarchical_section_title: Samuel Hieronymus Grimm / Life and work / Role as a recording historian
caption_attribution_description: English: St Bartholomew's parish church, Old Whittington, Derbyshire, seen from the southeast. Samuel Pegge was vicar here from 1751. This church burnt down in 1895, and has been replaced by a newer building.
context_page_description: Samuel Hieronymus Grimm was an 18th-century Swiss landscape artist who worked in oils, watercolours, and pen and ink media.
  Grimm specialised in documenting historical scenes and events; he also illustrated books such as Gilbert White's The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne.
context_section_description: Grimm's speciality was visually documenting historical relics in the kind of detail that might otherwise have gone unreported. For example, the British Library credits him with documenting the only surviving scene of the coronation of Edward VI. Another example of a unique artistic recording is the 1790 ink-wash drawing he produced of the chapel at Calcot Manor in Gloucestershire, long since ruined, and a drawing of Samuel Pegge's church which was later rebuilt after a fire. He also made a number of drawings of the body of Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln when his coffin was opened.
  The British Library possesses 2,662 drawings in twelve volumes by this artist, covering many of the counties of England and a further 886 watercolours, in seven volumes, dedicated to the county of Sussex.
caption: Old Whittington church, Derbyshire (1785). This was Samuel Pegge's church, later destroyed by a fire.
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