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Beechlands, Newick. The seat of William Thomson Esqre.
Drawn & Engraved by J.H. Hurdis for Baxter's History of Sussex.
Gad & Co. Printers. London [n.d., c.1830].
Engraving, with large margins, 160 x 225mm. 6¼ x 9".
A village fair attended by a crowd at the Beechland estate, Newick, East Sussex. Baskets lying on grass in foreground at centre, a man selling flowers and vegetables at left, and agricultural products laid out on a table outside a tent within a fenced area behind; building flanked by trees in background. There is an archery competition between two lady archers taking place in the background to right. John Henry Hurdis (1800 - 1857).
[Ref: 24267] £60.00
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The Rev. James Hurdis, D.D. Late Fellow of Magdalen College and Professor of Poetry in the University of Oxford.
J.H. Hurdis Fa: in aqua forte etc: 1842 Newick Sussex. J.H. AB. Coll: Mag. An. Aet. 21 Sharples delin. London 1784.
[1842.]
Rare etching, printed on chine collé. Plate: 380 x 305mm (15 x 12'').
A half-length, profile portrait of poet and clergyman James Hurdis (1763-1801) etched by his son James Henry Hurdis (1800-1857) after a drawing done in 1784 when Hurdis was 21.
[Ref: 48778] £230.00
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