Museum Object Number1957.0532 A |
Print (Line engraving)
To His Excellency James Glen, Esq. Governor.../ ...This Prospect of CHARLES-TOWN is most humbly Inscrib'd...
Prints and Maps
Bequest of Henry Francis du Pont
Bishop Roberts (Draftsman)
William Henry Toms (Engraver)
B. Roberts & W. H. Toms (Publisher)
Toms engraved portraits, book-plates, topographical and architectural subjects. He engraved plates for R. West's 'Perspective Views of All the Ancient Churches in London' and a series of Views of English country seats. Teacher of John Boydell, printmaker and publisher. (ULAN).
c.1700
1740c.1750
London, London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Plate engraved and printed in London.
Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina, South, United States, North America
Roberts completed his drawing in Charleston.
June 9 1739 (1739-1739)
1. Inscription; Bottom left; B. Roberts Delin.
2. Inscription; Bottom right; W.H. Toms sculp.
3. Inscription; Bottom right; Published according to Act of Parliament by/ B. Roberts & W. H. Toms June 9, 1739._
City view
Ink; Paper (laid)
Line engraved, Etched
19.6 (H) , 54.9 (W)
49.7 (H) , 139.5 (W)
OH at left. OW at bottom. Measurements of left section: H (at left) 16.9 in. (49.7 cm); W (at bottom): 27.4 in. (69.7 cm). Measurements of right section: H (at left) 16.9 in. (49.8 cm); W (at bottom): 27.5 in. (69.8 cm). Chain intervals: 2.8 cm; 9 laid lines per cm.
B. Roberts & W. H. Toms
06/09/1739
London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
I
Lily in crowned shield; countermark: "IV"
Text available soon.
[Book] Fowble, E. McSherry. 1991 To Please Every Taste: Eighteenth-Century Prints from the Winterthur Museum.
• Published: no. 5, pp. 46-47.
[Book] Fowble, E. McSherry. 1987 Two Centuries of Prints in America, 1680-1880 : A Selective Catalogue of the Winterthur Museum Collection.
• Published: no. 20, pp. 65-66.
[Book] Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, Inc. & The Walpole Society. 1963 Prints pertaining to America: a list of publications in English, relating to prints about that portion of America now included in the United States with emphasis on the period 1650-1850: and a checklist of prints in an exhibition to commemorate the 1962. 99 p.
• Published: no. 17, p. 18.
[Article] Richards, Nancy E. 10//1971 The print collection at Winterthur, Part I. Antiques. 100 (4): 586-590.
• Published: fig. 3, p. 588.
[Book] Lixl, Andreas. 2009 Memories of Carolinian Immigrants: Autobiographies, Diaries, and Letters from Colonial Times to the Present.
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