Yours sincerely Tho.s Streatfeild of Chart's Edge.
Painted & Drawn on Stone by Herbert L. Smith. Printed by M. & N. Hanhart. [n.d., c.1840.] Lithograph on chine collé. 460 x 340mm (18 x 13½"). Backing paper torn and soiled. Rev Thomas Streatfeild (1777-1848), an antiquarian whose 50 volumes of writings on the history of Kent (now in the BM) resulted in only one published volume, The History of Blackheath, for which he executed several wood engravings. Chart's Edge was the house he designed and built in Westerham.
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