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Beeston Castle

Maker

(artist)
1759-1817

(engraver)
ca. 1750-1831 (Life dates)

(publisher)

Title

Beeston Castle

Date of Production

1.1.1813

Medium

engraving

Dimensions

Height: 14.8 cm
Width: 18.8 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.4559

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Library, transfer, 1990

Credit

Courtauld Gallery, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

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Provenance

previous owner : Witt, Robert (Sir)

Inscriptions

Inscription: recto: lower left, artist : Painted by J.J. Ibbetson.

Inscription: recto: centre, title, publisher, date : BEESTON CASTLE. / Pub.d Jan.y 1.1813, by Boydell & Co. 90, Cheapside, London.

Inscription: recto: lower right, engraver: Engraved by S. Middiman .

Stamp: recto: stamped in black, centre right : WITT / LIBRARY.

Inscription: recto: handwritten in pencil, upper left : 934/47(11).

Inscription: recto: text pasted below, lower centre: BEESTON CASTLE, / CHESHIRE. / THE great insulated Rock of Britain, composed of sandstone, is very lofty and precipitous on three Sides, affording the/..... / Henry III. it is called the Castle on the rock. Camden's Britannia, Gough's Additions, Vol. II.p.435.

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