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Eggleston Abbey

Maker

After
(artist)
1744-1817

(printmaker, publisher)
1743-1805

(publisher)
1744-1817

Title

Eggleston Abbey

Date of Production

1782

Medium

printed in black
etching and engraving

Dimensions

Height: 22.1 cm
Width: 27 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.6109.31

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Library, transfer, 1990

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

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Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Inscriptions

Label: EGGLESTON ABBEY. / Eggleston, by some authors erroneously called Athlestan, was anciently / part of the large possessions which Earl Edwin held in Yorkshire in the / Saxon times, of which he was deprived at the Conquest, when King / William gave it, together with the Earldom of Richmond... //

Inscription: Drawn by T.Hearne. //

Inscription: T.O. //

Stamp: WITT / LIBRARY //

Inscription: No. XXXV //

Inscription: Engrav'd by W.Byrne. //

Inscription: To John Sawrey Morritt Esq.r of Rokeby Park in the County of York, / This View of EGGLESTON ABBEY is inscribed, / By his most obedient Servants, Thomas Hearne, & William Byrne. / London: Publish'd as the Act directs, 15 March 1782, by W.Byrne & T.Hearne. //

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