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Printing-Block
Woodblock

Object number

LDSAL2022.1.1483

Artist/Designer/Maker

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

Production date

pre-1836

Material

wood

Technique

Carving
Wood Engraving (Process)

Dimensions

height: 144mm
width: 108mm
depth: 24mm

Location

Burlington House -

Inscriptions

Inscription content

Herne

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HERNE CHURCH

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    Rectangular wooden printing block showing:- Obverse: carved and engraved design depicting view of St Martins-in-Herne church in Herne, Kent; showing a tower with several windows, and the entrance lower down to the side. Ink residue remaining on surface. Reverse: blank.
    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.