Background:

These prints are from a folio of illustrations of French Cathedrals published in the early 1800s.  They feature the drawings of the architect R. Garland which were subsequently engraved by B. Winkles.  The folio focused on "a selection ... from the most celebrated of such Cathedrals" from the 133 dioceses which comprised the 18 ecclesiastical provinces of France.

The prints shown on this page portray the Cathedral of St. Peter of Beauvais, an incomplete Roman Catholic Cathedral located in Beauvais in northern France.  As noted in Wikipedia "It is, in some respects, the most daring achievement of Gothic architecture, and consists only of a transept (sixteenth century) and choir, with apse and seven polygonal apsidal chapels (thirteenth century), which are reached by an ambulatory."