- Museum number
- 1877,0210.642-695
- Description
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'Picturesque sketches of rustic scenery including cottages & farm houses by Prout, Varley, Wilson, Hill, Munn, Pyne, Samuel Stevens,etc. 54, plates, 1815' (London, R. Ackermann) 1815; containing 54 wood-engravings by Stevens after various artists, including the title-sheet and frontispiece, with blank sheet before each plate, showing images of British counties: 'Bedfordshire, Kempston', 'Berkshire, Bracknel', 'Buckinghamshire, Great Marlow', 'Cambridgeshire, near Cambridge', 'Cheshire', 'Cornwall, West Looe', 'Cumberland. Buttermere', 'Derbyshire, Castleton', 'Devonshire, Seaton', 'Dorsetshire, Chalbury Hills', 'Durham, near Durham', 'Essex, near Saffron Walden', 'Gloucestershire, Michel Dean', 'Hampshire, near Winchester', 'Isle of Wight, Bon Church', 'Herefordshire, near Hampton Court', 'Hertfordshire, St SAlban's', 'Huntingdonshire, Orton', 'Kent, Bromley', 'Lancashire, Coniston', 'Leicestershire, Groby', 'Lincolnshire, near Lincoln', 'Middlesex, Hayes', 'Monnouthshire, Tintern', 'Norfolk, Norwich', 'Northamptonshire, Thorpe', 'Northumberland, Morpeth', 'Nottinghamshire, Gamston', 'Oxfordshire, Kennington', 'Rutlandshire, near Uppingham', 'Shropshire, Wenlock', 'Somersetshire, Minehead', 'Staffordshire, near Wolverhampton', 'Suffolk, near Brampton', 'Surry, near Leatherhead', 'Sussex, Hastings', 'Warwickshie, Coventry', 'Westmorland, Trout Beek', 'Wiltshire, Salisbury', 'Worcestershire, near Worcester', 'Yorkshire, Silkstone', 'Brecknockshire, Builth', 'Caernarvonshire, Conway', 'Cardiganshire, near Aberystwith', 'Denbighshire, near Valle Crucis Abbey', 'Flintshire, Rhidland', 'Glamorganshire, Swansea Ferry', 'Montgomeryshire, Welch Pool', 'Mertonethshire, Dolgelly', 'Pembrokeshire, Tenby', 'Radnorshire, Rhayidar', 'Isle of Aglesea, near the Paris Mine', and 'Caermarthenshire, near Cerriglennen Castle'. Bound in red quarter-leather with green boards, gold tooling on spine.
Wood-engraving
- Production date
- 1815
- Dimensions
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Height: 316 millimetres (approx. sheet size of each sheet)
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Width: 245 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- Cataloguing supported by the Elizabeth Cayzer Charitable Trust
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Picturesque sketches of rustic scenery
- Acquisition date
- 1877
- Acquisition notes
- Pencil note on title-page of book: "J. Deffett Francis to the Print Departmant of the British museum Jan.y 24. 1877".
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1877,0210.642-695