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![[Battersea.] [Set of three views.]](jpegs/68433.jpg)
[Battersea.] [Set of three views.]
Engraved by C.Tomkins.
Published June 1st 1784 by H.W.Billington Nº438 Strand London.
Scarce set of engravings. Sheets 210 x 145mm (8¼ x 5¾"). On 18th century watermarked paper. Trimmed into plate and edges backed onto album paper.
Set of three topographical oval views of Battersea and the Thames. A view from the bank overlooking the river, a man and woman in the left foreground and a sail boat in the right foreground. A view of the bank, in the foreground a man and dog watch two men carrying a boat, the river in the background. A view of the bank, in the foreground a man with a wheelbarrow and a man and woman fishing in the river, in the background sail boats drift along the river.
[Ref: 68433] £460.00 view all images for this item
Engraved by C.Tomkins.
Published June 1st 1784 by H.W.Billington Nº438 Strand London.
Scarce set of engravings. Sheets 210 x 145mm (8¼ x 5¾"). On 18th century watermarked paper. Trimmed into plate and edges backed onto album paper.
Set of three topographical oval views of Battersea and the Thames. A view from the bank overlooking the river, a man and woman in the left foreground and a sail boat in the right foreground. A view of the bank, in the foreground a man and dog watch two men carrying a boat, the river in the background. A view of the bank, in the foreground a man with a wheelbarrow and a man and woman fishing in the river, in the background sail boats drift along the river.
[Ref: 68433] £460.00 view all images for this item
The Hammersmith Ghost. 4
Pub.d by R.S. Kirby, London Houe Yard & I. Scott, 447 Strand, Feb. 1 1804.
Engraving, sheet 220 x 140mm (8½ x 5½"). Trimmed to plate at bottom.
In 1803 the 'Hammersmith Ghost', apparently the spirit of a man who had committed suicide by cutting his own throat, was terrorising the area and one of his victims, a woman taking a shortcut through a graveyard, died of shock. In the ensuing furore a dust-covered bricklayer was shot dead by a customs officer (who was sentenced to death but was reprieved), before the real 'ghost' was captured. It was a man trying to frighten people in retaliation for someone having scared his children by telling them ghost stories.
[Ref: 67925] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)
Pub.d by R.S. Kirby, London Houe Yard & I. Scott, 447 Strand, Feb. 1 1804.
Engraving, sheet 220 x 140mm (8½ x 5½"). Trimmed to plate at bottom.
In 1803 the 'Hammersmith Ghost', apparently the spirit of a man who had committed suicide by cutting his own throat, was terrorising the area and one of his victims, a woman taking a shortcut through a graveyard, died of shock. In the ensuing furore a dust-covered bricklayer was shot dead by a customs officer (who was sentenced to death but was reprieved), before the real 'ghost' was captured. It was a man trying to frighten people in retaliation for someone having scared his children by telling them ghost stories.
[Ref: 67925] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)