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Printing-Block
Woodblock

Object number

LDSAL2022.1.1476

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: 91mm
width: 177mm
depth: 28mm

Location

Burlington House -

Inscriptions

Inscription content

Chest Wittersham

Inscription content

F

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 ornate chest from church in Wittersham, Kent; with series of intricate carvings in the stone body, including fleur-de-lis and star-shaped motifs in vertical panels, with central padlock, and two diamond-shaped handles on the top. Ink residue remaining on surface. Reverse: print of image from the obverse attached to surface.
    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.