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Printing-Block
Woodblock

Object number

LDSAL2022.1.1473

Artist/Designer/Maker

Streatfeild, Thomas (Rev.) - Commissioner
Streatfeild, Thomas (Rev.) - Previous Owner

Production date

pre-1836

Material

wood
paper

Technique

Carving
Wood Engraving (Process)

Dimensions

height: 115mm
width: 186mm
depth: 26mm

Location

Burlington House -

References

Reference (free text)

Streatfeild, Thomas; Excerpta Cantiana: being the prospecture of a history of Kent; London: 1836.

Reference association

illustrated

Reference note

The image is printed on a sheet of proofs, stored in a compartment in the inner sleeve of the book cover.
    Rectangular wooden printing block showing:- Obverse: carved and engraved design depicting view of St. Mary's Church, formerly an abbey, in Reculver, on Herne Bay in Kent; showing the two prominent towers of the church in the background to the right, with walls of the ruins of adjoining Roman fort visible in the foreground to the left. Ink residue remaining on surface. Reverse: print of image from the obverse stuck on top of printer's waste paper.
    One of a large collection of woodblocks and copper plates, commissioned by Rev. Thomas Streatfeild (1777-1848), intended to illustrate an expanded series of Hasted's 'History of Kent'. Only one volume was published, posthumously, 'The Hundred of Blackheath', in 1886; however, a selection of the engravings appear in a prospectus, titled 'Excerptia Cantiana', which was compiled by Streatfeild in 1836, along with several sheets of printed proofs which show all the engravings in printed form. The collection of blocks and plates was donated to the Society in 1890; some of the blocks were illustrated and engraved by Streatfeild himself, but it is not specified which.

    Digitised thanks to the kind donation of Dr Edward Harris MBE FSA.