John Hutchins

Southwest View of Sherborne Abbey Church /// History of Dorset English Engraving

1861-1870

Artist: Johannes "Jan" Kip (Dutch, 1652/3-1722) Title: "The West Prospect of the Cathedral of York" (Vol. 3, Plate 31) Portfolio: Britannia Illustrata / Le Nouveau Théâtre de la Grande Bretagne Year: 1715-1724 (Third edition) Medium: Original Engraving and Etching on cream laid paper Limited edition: Unknown Printer: Joseph Smith, London, UK Publisher: Joseph Smith, London, UK Reference: "London Illustrated 1604-1850" - Adams No. 22; Crace No. 201; Brunet IV No. 114; Lowndes No. 1277; Lewine page 263-264 Sheet size: 19.25" x 24.19" Image size: 16.75" x 22.5" Condition: With centerfold as issued. Some light toning and foxing mainly in margins, and some light edgewear. Has been professionally stored away for decades. It is otherwise a strong impression in very good condition Rare Notes: Provenance: private collection - Ross-on-Wye, UK. Engraved by Dutch artist Johannes "Jan" Kip (1652/3-1722) after a drawing by Dutch artist Leonard Knyff or Leendert Knijff (1650-1722). Comes from Kip's six volume (including Supplement and 'Atlas Anglois') "Britannia Illustrata" / Le Nouveau Théâtre de la Grande Bretagne", (1724-1728) (Third edition), which consists of 394 engravings and etchings. Printed in one color from one copper plate: black. Biography: Johannes "Jan" Kip (1652/53 in Amsterdam - 1722 in Westminster) was a Dutch draftsman, engraver and print dealer. Together with Leonard Knyff, he made a speciality of engraved views of English country houses. Kip was a pupil of Bastiaen Stopendaal (1636–1707), from 1668 to 1670, before setting up on his own; his earliest dated engravings are from 1672. In April 1680, at the age of 27, he married Elisabeth Breda in Amsterdam. After producing works for the court of William of Orange in Amsterdam, Kip followed William and Mary to London and settled in St. John Street in Farringdon, where he conducted a thriving printselling business. He also worked for various London publishers producing engravings after such artists as Francis Barlow (c. 1626–1704) and Caius Gabriel Cibber (1630–1700), largely for book illustrations. He made several engraved plates for Awnsham & John Churchill's "A Collection of Voyages & Travels" (first published 1704). He signed the African scenes in volume V of the 1732 edition as "J. Kip". His most important works were the large fold-out folio illustrations for "Britannia Illustrata", 1708; for the 65 folio plates he engraved for the antiquary Sir Robert Atkyns, "The Ancient and Present State of Glostershire", 1712 (1st edition); and for "Le Nouveau Théâtre de la Grande Bretagne ou description exacte des palais de la Reine, et des Maisons les plus considerables des des Seigneurs & des Gentilshommes de la Grande Bretagne", 1715, an extended reprint in collaboration with other artists. The linked careers of Jan Kip and Leonard Knyff made a specialty of engraved views of English country houses, represented in detail from the bird's-eye view, a pictorial convention for topography. Their major work was "Britannia Illustrata: Or Views of Several of the Queens Palaces, as Also of the Principal seats of the Nobility and Gentry of Great Britain, Curiously Engraven on 80 Copper Plates", London (1707, published in the winter of 1708–9). The volume is among the most important English topographical publications of the 18th century. Architecture is rendered with care, and the settings of parterres and radiating avenues driven through woods or planted across fields, garden paths, gates and toolsheds are illustrated in detail. The images are staffed with figures and horses, coaches pulling into forecourts, water...

Artist: Robert Clutterbuck (English, 1772-1831) Title: "St. Alban's Abbey Church, High Altar screen" Portfolio: The History and Antiquities of the County of Hertford Year: 1815-1827 (First edition) Medium: Original Engraving on wove paper Limited edition: Unknown Printer: Nichols, Son, and Bentley, London, UK Publisher: Nichols, Son, and Bentley, London, UK Reference: Brunet II, No. 112; Lowndes No. 483; BAL RIBA No. 666; Upcott I, page 623 Sheet size: 17.63" x 11.38" Image size: 11.57" x 8.57" Condition: Scattered foxing throughout sheet; it doesn't show much within the image. Creasing to upper left and right corners. Has been professionally stored away for decades. It is otherwise a strong impression in good condition Notes: Provenance: private collection - Aspen, CO. Engraved by English artist John Henry Le Keux (1812-1896) after a drawing by English artist Frederick Nash (1782-1856). Comes from Clutterbuck's three volume "The History and Antiquities of the County of Hertford", (1815-1827) (First edition), which consists of 54 engravings. Printed from one copper plate on one color: black. "Vol. I. p. 65" printed upper right in margin. "Proof" printed lower right in margin. St Albans Cathedral, officially the Cathedral and Abbey Church of St Alban, also known as "the Abbey", is a Church of England cathedral...

Artist: Benjamin Cole (English, c. 1697-1783) Title: "The South West Prospect of St. Mary's Church in the Strand" Portfolio: The History and Survey of London from its Foundation to t...

Artist: Sir William Dugdale (English, 1605-1686) Title: "Monastery of St. Augustine, Canterbury" Portfolio: Monasticon Anglicanum: A History of the Abbies and Other Monasteries, Hosp...

To see our other Oxford and Cambridge pictures, including an extensive collection of works by Ackermann, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from th...

To see our other Oxford and Cambridge pictures, including an extensive collection of works by Ackermann, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller" - or send us a message if you cannot find the view you want. Frederick Christian Lewis (1779 - 1856) after Frederick Nash (1782 - 1856) St Mary's Church, Oxford (1813) Aquatint with original hand colouring 21 x 27 cm Published by Rudolph Ackermann (1764 - 1834). Frederick Nash was born in Lambeth. He studied architectural drawing under Thomas Malton and then enrolled at the Royal Academy of Arts. From 1801 to 1809 he worked with the antiquarians John Britton and Edward Wedlake Brayley, subsequently becoming a member of the Society of Painters in Watercolours - a group of painters who had left the Royal Academy following complaints of under-recognition of their works. Nash became primarily a landscape painter and toured the rivers of Germany. Frederick Christian Lewis was an English etcher, aquatint and stipple engraver, landscape and portrait painter. He studied under J. C. Stadler and in the schools of the Royal Academy and aquatinted most of Thomas Girtin's etchings of Paris...

John Basire & John Carter St Albans Cathedral Engraving 62 x 46 cm This engraving was originally published by the Society of Antiquaries of London, an organisation dedicated to st...

James Basire & John Carter The Abbey Church of St Albans Engraving 62 x 46 cm This engraving was originally published by the Society of Antiquaries of London, an organisation dedi...