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Printing plate
copper plate Printing plate border

Object number

LDSAL2022.2.4.2

Artist/Designer/Maker

Large, Jane - Printing plate maker

Production date

after 1823

Material

copper

Technique

Engraving

Dimensions

height: 295mm
width: 384mm

Location

Burlington House - Box A

Content description

Rectangle border of copper plate with lettering and John Ward's coat of arms in the lower centre. The central image was cut out (see LDSAL2022.2.4.1). Lettered with title and production information. Copper plate maker's stamp and signs of repoussage on the reverse.

Inscriptions

Inscription content

This plate of Holwood House erected in the year 1823
from the design of Decimus Burton Arch.t
was engraved at the expence of John Ward Esq.re
and presented to his colliged T. Streatfeild.

Inscription content

J· LARGE & CO
15 LITTLE NEW ST
SHOE LANE LONDON

References

Reference (controlled)

Betti, Chiara. “Lost Treasures Resurface: The Untold Story of the Society of Antiquaries’ Printing Plates.” The Antiquaries Journal 104 (2024): 304–42. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003581524000179.
    Rectangle copper plate border; the central image was cut out (see LDSAL2022.2.4.1). Lettered with title and production information. Copper plate maker's stamp and signs of repoussage on the reverse.
    This is the border to a view of Holwood House (see LDSAL2022.2.4.1).

    This plate is listed in a handlist of the woodblock and copper plates commissioned by Thomas Streatfeild found in one drawer at the Society of Antiquaries.

    Digitised thanks to the kind donation of Mr Stephen Wood FSA.