Object Number 1969.2811

Object Name

Print (Etching)

Title

A View of Foots-Cray Place in Kent, the Seat of Bourchier Cleeve Esq.\r / Veüe de Foots-Cray Place, dans la Comté de Kent, Maison de Bourchier Cleeve Escuyer.

Category

Prints and Maps

Credit Line/Donor

Bequest of Henry Francis du Pont

Creator (Role)

William Woollett (Designer and etcher)
08/15/1735-05/23/1785
Woollett was apprenticed to John Tinney, an engraver in Fleet Street, London, and studied in the St Martin's Lane academy. His first important plate was from the "Niobe" of Richard Wilson, published by Boydell in 1761, which was followed in 1763 by a companion engraving from the "Phaethon" of the same painter. After West he engraved his fine plate of the "Battle of La Hogue" (1781), and the "Death of General Wolfe" (1776), which is usually considered Woollett's masterpiece.

Robert Sayer, John Boydell, Heny Parker & Elizaberth Bakewell, Thomas Bowles, and John Bowles & Son (Publisher and printseller)

Place of Origin

London, London, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Date

1750-1760

Mark or Signature or Inscription or Label

1. Inscription; Lower right; W. Woollett del. et Sculp.
2. Inscription; Lower center; Printed for J. Boydell Engraver the Corner of Queen Street in Cheapside, T. Bowles S.\t Pauls Church Yard, John Bowles & Son, at the Black Horse in Cornhill, Rob.\t Sayer at the Golden Buck in Fleet Street, & Hen. Parker & Eliz. Bakewell in Cornhill.

Subjects

Genre scene; Landscape; Estate or house view

Materials

Ink; Paper (laid)

Techniques

Etched, Engraved, Line engraved, Line Etched

Dimensions (inches)

14.9 (H) , 21 (W) , 14.1 (Image H) , 20.3 (Image W)

Dimensions (centimeters)

37.8 (H) , 53.3 (W) , 14.1 (Image H) , 20.3 (Image W)

Measurement Notes

Trimmed within platemark.

Publisher Summary

Robert Sayer, John Boydell, Heny Parker & Elizaberth Bakewell, Thomas Bowles, and John Bowles & Son

Place of Publication

London, England, United Kingdom

Watermark

Unknown

Object Description

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