Object Number 1957.0532 A

Object Name

Print (Line engraving)

Title

To His Excellency James Glen, Esq. Governor.../ ...This Prospect of CHARLES-TOWN is most humbly Inscrib'd...

Category

Prints and Maps

Credit Line/Donor

Bequest of Henry Francis du Pont

Creator (Role)

Bishop Roberts (Draftsman)-1740

William Henry Toms (Engraver)
c.1700-c.1750
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).

B. Roberts & W. H. Toms (Publisher)

Place of Origin

London, London, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Origin Notes

Plate engraved and printed in London.

Secondary Place of Origin

Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina, South, United States, North America

Secondary Origin Notes

Roberts completed his drawing in Charleston.

Date

June 9 1739 (1739-1739)

Mark or Signature or Inscription or Label

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._

Subjects

City view

Materials

Ink; Paper (laid)

Techniques

Line engraved, Etched

Dimensions (inches)

19.6 (H) , 54.9 (W)

Dimensions (centimeters)

49.7 (H) , 139.5 (W)

Measurement Notes

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.

Publisher Summary

B. Roberts & W. H. Toms

Publication Date

06/09/1739

Place of Publication

London, England, United Kingdom, Europe

State

I

Watermark

Lily in crowned shield; countermark: "IV"

Object Description

Text available soon.

Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes

[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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