PERSPECTIVE VIEW OF ST. EDMUND’S BURY ABBY, IN THE COUNTY OF SUFFOLK

Original 1771 6 1/4 inch x 11 inch copper plate engraving titled PERSPECTIVE VIEW OF ST. EDMUND’S BURY ABBY, IN THE COUNTY OF SUFFOLK.

View of the Abbey Gate at Bury St. Edmunds, the ornate Gothic building with arched niches and blind arcades, crenallations above with quatrefoil windows and star windows, a large central portal below with an ogee curve above, walls to the left and right, the ruins of the Abbey beyond with hills in the distance. Horse riders and other figures in the foreground.

After an earlier engraving by Nathaniel Buck (1696 – 1779) and Samuel Buck (1696 – 1779).

The Buck brothers recorded ruins throughout England and published 428 engravings of monasteries, abbeys, castles and ruins and 87 long prospects of English and Welsh towns, producing a record of England and Wales before the Industrial Revolution.

From ‘The complete English Traveller; a new survey and Description of England and wales. Containing a full Account of whatever is curious and entertaining in the several Counties of England and Wales, The Isles of Man, Jersey, Guernsey, and other islands adjoining to, and dependant on the Crown of Great Britain’ by Nathaniel Spencer.

Printed for John Cooke, Shakespeare’s Head, Paternoster Row, London 1771.

Page size 9 inch x 14 inch

The engraving, on chain-laid paper, is in good condition with slight age related toning. Reverse side blank.