ENFIELD WASH

Original 1808 3 3/4 inch x 6 1/2 inch Etching titled ENFIELD WASH

View of Enfield Wash, north London; a fast running river in foreground, a bridge to the left, cows and horses in field beyond, a few houses at far end of field; illustration to Hughson’s ‘Descriptions of London’. 1808.

Print by Samuel Sparrow, No.17, Rosoman’s Row, Clerkenwell, London. Engraver and occasional caricaturist.

From a picture by William Ellis (1747 – 1810). An English engraver and oil painter. Ellis was born in London in 1747, the son of a writing engraver. He was placed as a pupil with William Woollett. He produced some fine plates in the style of his teacher, some being executed in conjunction with him, including the two portraits of Rubens and his wife, published in 1774; A River Scene with a Windmill, after Salomon Ruysdael, published in 1777; Solitude, after Richard Wilson, published in 1778; and two scenes from the Vicar of Wakefield, after Thomas Hearne, published in 1780, and exhibited at the Society of Artists in that year.

Ellis engraved several topographical views after Paul Sandby and Thomas Hearne, a set of The Seasons after Hearne, and some plates for the Ladies’ Magazine. In 1800 he aquatinted a set of engravings of Views of the Memorable Victory of the Nile engraved by Francis Chesham from paintings by William Anderson. Between 1783 and 1793 he lived at 9 Gwynne’s Buildings, Islington

Published on October 29th, 1808, by J. Stratford, 112 Holborn Hill, London.

Plate size 4 7/8 inch x 7 7/8 inch

The etching is in very good condition with slight age-related toning.