Title
CANTERBURY : VUE_ DE CANTERBURY. / Days delt ; Jukes Aqt.
Creator
Jukes, Francis, 1745-1812, printmaker, publisher.
Publication details
[London] : [Pubd. Jany. 31. 1790 by F. Jukes Engraver, Howland Street.], [January 3 1790]
Physical details
1 print : aquatint and etching with hand-colouring ; platemark 38.5 x 50.2 cm, on sheet 42.6 x 56.1 cm
Description
View with a gatehouse to the left, a thatched cottage in front of it, bordered by a wooden fence and part of the city wall, with the cathedral in the background and rooftops over trees around it, seen across a field where a woman is milking cows and a two men are walking with agricultural tools, with a large tree in the left foreground. Publication line missing but inscribed in black ink with 'London published by F Jukes 1790'.
Place
Canterbury (England)
Additional information
Description beneath title reads: 'The Cathedral seen in the view, is said to be originally founded by Lucius, the first, Christian King of the Britons. It was made a Cathedral Monastery by St. Augustine Ann. 600, and is the first Episcopal Church of the Saxon Christians. It is now a Magnificent pile of Buildings, in the Gothic taste. Rebuilt and improved at various times & ages. The City was walled about the Year 600, and had seven Gates. The Monastery / represented in this View / was founded in 605 and dedicated to St. Augustine Anno 987'. Also translated into French.
Other persons
Dayes, Edward, 1763-1804, artist.
Shelfmark
Maps K.Top.16.35.b.