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ANTIQUARIAN AND TOPOGRAPHICAL CABINET
CONTAINING A SERIES OF ELEGANT VIEWS OF THE MOST INTERESTING OBJECTS OF CURIOSITY IN GREAT BRITAIN
LONDON - 1812

This Page is provided as a REFERENCE RESOURCE - it is NOT an Inventory.
 After very many years in the Trade, I am now retired and the Postaprint Website as such is no longer available.
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Genuine original antiquarian maps and authentic historical engravings, printed at the dates stated. We do NOT deal in modern reproductions.

Some Background Information about Some of the Illustrators and the Prints

The illustrations in this work are of a high quality. They are very small (Approximately 6x3.5 Inches) but are executed with delicate accuracy. The views depicted are mainly of buildings, however, they also contain figures, animals and adjacent countryside (or in some cases the sea). Some of the views are beautifully framed by trees and all of them are composed to the highest of standards.

JOHN GREIG (fl. 1807-1824) was a draughtsman, lithographer, engraver and landscape painter. His work can also be found in the following: Promenades Across London - 1817; Views of London; Tours in Cornwall - 1824; Britton's Beauties of England and Wales and Border Antiquities of England and Wales - 1817.

JOHN HAWKESWORTH worked in London in around 1820. He also contributed to: The History and Antiquities of Islington - 1823.

SAMUEL PROUT (1783-1852) was a drawing master, topographical illustrator and watercolourist. He was born on 17th December in Norfolk, England and studied under the master of the Plymouth Grammar School, J. Bidlake. He was not always able to produce work to the high standards required by publishers such as John Britton. In 1796 Britton employed Prout to tour Cornwall in order to sketch views for his series of Beauties of England & Wales after having seen the sketches of Devonshire that Prout produced whilst touring with the historical painter, B. R. Haydon. These sketches of Cornwall were unsuccessful and it wasn't until 1802 that his work had improved to a satisfactory standard and he was re-employed by Britton.

Prout's work was considered to be exceptional, he depicted Gothic architecture with great precision. He was also able to show the mood of the buildings contrasted with highlights of figures which, for a generation, was widely copied. This was mainly due to Ruskin's report on him in Modern Painters, which described Prout as a substantial and sunny colourist.

Prout was ill continually, however, he finished work on Wiltshire, Essex and Cambridgeshire for John Britton. It wasn't until 1819, after he became a member of the Old Watecolour Society (OWS), that Prout first travelled to the Continent visiting France. He then went on to travel widely in Europe visiting Bavaria, Italy, The Rhine and Belgium in 1824. His last tour was to Normandy in 1846 after which, he became extremely ill and was unable to work from that time until his death in February 1852.

FREDERICK WILTON LITCHFIELD STOCKDALE (fl. 1803-1848) was primarily a topographer. He worked as assistant to the secretary of the East India Company until, due to ill health, he was compelled to resign. However, despite this, he contributed prolifically to topographical works. Stockdale also exhibited in the Royal Academy

Stockdale's work can also be found in the following: Etchings...of Antiquities in...Kent - 1810; A Concise...Sketch of Hastings, Winchelsea and Rye - 1817; Excursions in Cornwall - 1824; The Cornish Tourist - 1834; The Beauties of England and Wales - 1801-13; Antiquarian Itinerary - 1818 and Ackerman's Repository - 1825-28.

JAMES SARGANT STORER (1771-1853) was born in Cambridge, England in 1771 and practiced draughtmanship, engraving and topographical illustrations there. He chiefly worked on illustrative surveys of the cathedrals and medieval buildings of England. Although he was not considered to have great talent, the illustrations of the buildings were (and are) considered to be extremely accurate. He died in London, England in 1853.

Storer's work can also be found in the following: Cathedrals of Great Britain - 1823-4; Illustrations of Cambridge - 1827-32; Britton's Cathedrals - 1832-6; The Cambridge Almanac - 1832; Cantabrigia Illustrata - 1835; Collegiorum portae apud Cantabrigium - 1837; Delineations of the Chapel of King's College and Delineations of Trinity College.

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THIS IS A LIST OF THE STEEL ENGRAVED PLATES.
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BEDS Dunstaple. Elstow. Bletsoe etc.
BUCKS Marlow. Olney. Whaddon Hall etc.
CHESHIRE Chester Cathedral/Abbey gate etc.
CORNWALL Truro. Trematon. Launceston etc.
DEVON B/Pomeroy. Oakhampton. Paignton etc.
DORSET Sherborne Church. Abbotsbury etc.
ESSEX Waltham. Thaxted. Hadleigh etc.
GLOS Bristol. St Briavels Castle etc.
HANTS Winchester. Basingstoke. Interiors etc.
HEREFORD Clifford. Interiors etc..
HERTS St Albans Abbey (2) etc.
KENT Hever. Aylesford. Sandwich Etc
LANCS Liverpool. Furness Abbey Etc.
LINCS Croyland. Ayscough. Interiors etc.
LONDON/SC Tower. Christ's Hospital Etc.
MDDX Harrow. Canonbury etc.
MONMOUTH Newport. Tintern. Llantony etc.
NORFOLK Lynn Regis. Walsingham etc.
NORTHANTS Northampton. Woolaston etc.
NOTTS Nottingham. Newark etc.
OXON Christchurch. Holton. Interiors etc.
SCOTLAND St Andres. Aberdeen. Orkney etc.
SHROPS Shrewsbury. Ludlow etc.
SOMT Bath Abbey +2 Farley.
SUFFOLK Ipswich. Clare etc.
SURREY Guildford. Beddington etc.
SUSSEX Chichester. Cowdray etc.
WALES Pembroke. Brecon. Castles etc.
WARCS Warwick. Coventry. Kenilworth etc.
WILTS Trowbidge. Devizes. Stourton etc.
WORCS Dudley Etc.
YORKSHIRE Tork. Doncaster. Byland etc.

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