illustrated book;
print
- Museum number
- 1871,0812.575-606
- Description
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'Views of Reading Abbey, with those of the churches originally connected with it. In the county of Berks; together with some monuments of antiquity, remaining in those churches; containing thirty-three engravings, with descriptive letter-press' (London: printed by J. Whiting for J. Mason) 1805; containing frontispeice showing 'General plan of the ruins of Reading Abbey, surveyed by Sir Henry Englefield', and 32 aquatints by C. Tomkins:
North front of the Abbey Gate, Reading
North view of the ruins
East view of the Great Hall
Inside of the Great Hall
Arms & cypher of Hugh Farringdon
South east view of the ruins
South entrance of the Cloisters
South front of the Abbey Gate, Reading
View of Caversham, through the Gateway
Caversham Church
Purley Church
Ancient fonts
Pangbourn church
Tidmarsh church
Monument at Tidmarch
Monument at Tidmarch
Saxon doorway at Tidmarsh
Sulham church
Beenham church
Monument at Beenham
Wargrave church
Warfield church
Monument in Warfield church
Tilehurst church
Englefield church
Ancient monument in Englefield church
Ancient monument in Englefield church
Thatcham church
Greenham chapel
Monument in St Laurance church
Monument in St Laurance church
Monument in St Marys church
Bound at the British Museum bindery, in brown leather with raised bands and gold lettering at the spine; advertisement for this publication pasted inside the front cover.
Aquatint and etching
- Production date
- 1805
- Dimensions
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Height: 305 millimetres (approx. size of each page)
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Width: 235 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- Cataloguing supported by the Elizabeth Cayzer Charitable Trust
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Views of Reading Abbey
- Acquisition date
- 1871
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1871,0812.575-606
