Carved Doorway In Old London Wall | Limited Edition of 10
Hand-etched plaster surrounding a medieval timber door
There’s something about old English plaster that holds onto time differently than stone. It dents. It yields. It remembers. In this case, it’s been remembered for a very long time.
What you’re looking at here is a small timber door set into a lime plaster wall that’s been carved into repeatedly by hand over what feels like generations. The surface around the doorway has become a dense patchwork of scratched names, initials, symbols, and half-finished attempts at permanence. Some marks are confident and deeply cut. Others are tentative, as if the person holding the knife or nail changed their mind halfway through. The entire surround reads less like architecture and more like a public record that was never meant to last but somehow did.
The door itself sits recessed within a shallow arched opening, its surface worn smooth in vertical streaks where hands and weather have passed over it countless times. Small circular holes run across the upper portion of the panel, likely remnants of older fittings or repairs. The plaster edge along the arch still holds its shape, but only just. The wall has been used far more than it was ever designed for.
I photographed this on location while exploring one of the older residential districts on the outskirts of London, where buildings like this are still quietly embedded into the rhythm of modern streets. Nothing about it was staged or preserved for show. It simply existed this way, worn down through decades of casual contact and small acts of defiance against smooth surfaces.
Each print is produced using archival pigment inks on museum-quality photographic paper and is personally signed. A certificate of authenticity is included with every edition.
This piece also sits naturally within my ongoing historic door wall art collection.
© Dan Kosmayer, 2024
Limited Edition of 10
This photograph is released as a signed and numbered limited edition of only 10 prints in total across all available sizes combined—not 10 prints in each size.
Every size is drawn from the same edition. Whether the photograph is purchased as a small print or at the largest available size, it uses one of the 10 edition numbers.
I personally sign and number each print on the reverse, and every print is accompanied by a signed Certificate of Authenticity recording its title, dimensions, medium, edition number, and date of issue.
Once all 10 prints have been sold, the edition will be permanently closed. No additional numbered editions of the photograph will be produced in another size or format.
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