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Printing-Block
Woodblock

Object number

LDSAL2022.1.1515

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: 36mm
width: 28mm
depth: 24mm

Location

Burlington House -

Inscriptions

Inscription content

Sir Will.m Cecil
Nov. 20 - 10 Eliz

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:- carved and engraved design depicting signature of Sir William Cecil, Lord Burghley, influential Elizabethan-era political figure; from c. 1567. Ink residue remaining on 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.

    This block is included in an indexed list of all items left to the Society as part of the Streatfeild collection; described in this list as 'Signature of Sir William Cecil, Lord Burghley, 10 Eliz.'

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