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Printing-Block
Woodblock

Object number

LDSAL2022.1.865

Artist/Designer/Maker

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

Production date

pre-1836

Material

wood

Technique

Drawing and Drawing Techniques

Dimensions

height: 201mm
width: 37mm
depth: 23mm

Location

Burlington House -

Inscriptions

Inscription content

Lullingstone

Inscription content

Lullingstone Church
    Rectangular wooden printing block showing:- Obverse: unengraved preparatory design depicting interior of church in Lullingstone, Kent. Ink residue remaining on surface. Reverse: handwritten inscription on surface denoting content of image from the obverse.
    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 Mr Andrew Payne.