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Printing-Block
Woodblock

Object number

LDSAL2022.1.1481

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: 126mm
width: 149mm
depth: 25mm

Location

Burlington House -

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ELTHAM

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    Rectangular wooden printing block showing:- Obverse: carved and engraved design depicting pre-restoration view of Eltham Palace, south-east London; showing a ruined facade towards the front, and a large building rising towards the back, surrounded by trees. 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 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.