A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
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![[Jacob Lovelace's Exeter Clock.]](jpegs/64035.jpg)
[Jacob Lovelace's Exeter Clock.]
[W. King 1829]
Hackett, Lithog, Exeter, 1833.
Coloured lithograph. Printed border 510 x 365mm (20 x 14¼"), very large margins. Lengthy tear taped.
A very rare, separately-published print of a 10ft tall clock, with a text describing all the different automations, including a moving panorama. Jacob Lovelace (1687-1755) was a clockmaker of Exeter, who spent 34 years building this clock, before dying in poverty. This plate was published when the clock was for sale in the 1830s; it sold for 680 guineas. The clock was repaired by William Frost and exhibited by him at the Great Exhibition of 1851. It was then bought by Sir Joseph Meyer, a famed Victorian collector, who donated it to Liverpool Museum, where it was bombed during the Second World War and damaged beyound repair. The remains are now on display in Exeter Museum.
[Ref: 64035] £460.00
[W. King 1829]
Hackett, Lithog, Exeter, 1833.
Coloured lithograph. Printed border 510 x 365mm (20 x 14¼"), very large margins. Lengthy tear taped.
A very rare, separately-published print of a 10ft tall clock, with a text describing all the different automations, including a moving panorama. Jacob Lovelace (1687-1755) was a clockmaker of Exeter, who spent 34 years building this clock, before dying in poverty. This plate was published when the clock was for sale in the 1830s; it sold for 680 guineas. The clock was repaired by William Frost and exhibited by him at the Great Exhibition of 1851. It was then bought by Sir Joseph Meyer, a famed Victorian collector, who donated it to Liverpool Museum, where it was bombed during the Second World War and damaged beyound repair. The remains are now on display in Exeter Museum.
[Ref: 64035] £460.00