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Grantham school vignette

Maker

After
(artist)
1773-1854

After
(artist)
1757-1831

(printmaker)
1767-1827

Title

Grantham school vignette

Date of Production

1797 - 1805

Medium

etching and engraving
printed in black

Dimensions

Height: 10.3 cm
Width: 14.3 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.6125.29

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

Inscription: Ja. Bourne del //

Inscription: Howlett's Views in County of Lincoln, 1800 //

Inscription: B. Howlett Sculp //

Stamp: WITT / LIBRARY //

Label: A free school was founded at Grantham, by King Henry the / Sixth: it had also two charity schools; and a spacious school and / house for the master were built by Bishop Fox, a native of Ropesley, / a neighbouring village, and endowed by that prelate in the year 1528. / This school forms the subject of the vignette which accompanies / this description. / The dawning genius of the great Newton, born at Woolsthorpe, / in the soke of Grantham, began to expand itself in this seminary. //

Inscription: Figures by R. Corbould //

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