print
- Museum number
- 1917,1208.3372
- Title
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Object: Rochester.
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Object: Entrance to the Peak Cavern. / Derbyshire.
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Series: Great Britain Illustrated: A Series of Original Views from Drawings by William Westall, A.R.A. Engraved by, and under the direction of, Edward Finden, With Descriptions by Thomas Moule
- Description
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Two views printed from one plate.
Above: view of Rochester from the riverbank, with cattle grazing and lying in foreground and a herder standing nearby at right; castle on the opposite bank, bridge over the river Medway in middle ground at left; plate 45.
Below: entrance to the Peak Cavern, with a couple conversing on the ledge in foreground at right and a man holding a cable of a pulley behind at centre; building with smoking chimney nearby, another building at lower level at left; plate 46; after William Westall. 1829
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1829
- Dimensions
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Height: 92 millimetres (lower image)
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Height: 276 millimetres (platemark)
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Height: 92 millimetres (upper image)
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Width: 135 millimetres (lower image)
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Width: 214 millimetres (sheet; trimmed or cut)
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Width: 145 millimetres (upper image)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- According to Andres, in the second edition the top view occurs as Vol.. I, plate 4.
See Comment of 1977,0611.128
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1917
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1917,1208.3372
