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Lime-Regis, Illustration for The Itinerant

Maker

(artist)
1750-1818

(engraver)
1776-1802

(publisher)
1776-1802

Title

Lime-Regis, Illustration for The Itinerant

Date of Production

1796

Medium

engraving and etching
printed in black

Dimensions

Height: 12.9 cm
Width: 17.2 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.7839

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: recto: lower left: Engraved by J. Walker from an Original Drawing by J. Nixon Esq.r

Inscription: recto: lower right: Publish'd March 1st 1796 by J. Walker No. 16 Rosomans Street

Inscription: recto: lower centre: LIME-REGIS.

Inscription: recto: upper right: The Itinerant.

recto: upper right, on mount, stamped: WITT / LIBRARY

recto: lower centre, glued on mount: LIME REGIS, / A TOWN in Dorsetshire ; it originally belonged to the ecclesiastics of Sherborn Abbey, whose lands were given by the Saxon king, Kenwulf, in 774, but were annexed to the crown in the time of Edward I. [etc.]

recto: lower right, stamped in blue: M

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