The Complete English Traveller

Prints from The Complete English Traveller mix town prospects with dramatic scenes from history, published in London by J. C...

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Prints from The Complete English Traveller mix town prospects with dramatic scenes from history, published in London by J. Cooke in 1771 under Nathaniel Spencer’s name. Worcester, Leicester and Colchester appear in broad views, Oxford through its university buildings, and Battle Abbey and a country seat in Kent add monastic ruins and estate scenery. The narrative plates, among them religious violence and a ceremony connected with Blackfriars Bridge, are eighteenth-century interpretations of the past rather than records made at the time.

Prints from The Complete English Traveller mix town prospects with dramatic scenes from history, published in London by J. Cooke in 1771 under Nathaniel Spencer’s name. Worcester, Leicester and Colchester appear in broad views, Oxford through its university buildings, and Battle Abbey and a country seat in Kent add monastic ruins and estate scenery. The narrative plates, among them religious violence and a ceremony connected with Blackfriars Bridge, are eighteenth-century interpretations of the past rather than records made at the time.

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