Grantham school vignette
Maker
After
(artist)
1773-1854
After
(artist)
1757-1831
(printmaker)
1767-1827
(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
printed in black
Dimensions
Height: 10.3 cm
Width: 14.3 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
Keywords
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 //
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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