Title
LYMNE CASTLE, with a distant View of the FRENCH COAST. = CHATEAU de LYMNE, avec une vue e_loigne_e des CO_TES de FRANCE. / Dayes delt ; Jukes Aq.
Creator
Jukes, Francis, 1745-1812, printmaker, publisher.
Publication details
London : Pubd Jany 1790 by Jukes., [January 1790]
Physical details
1 print : aquatint and etching with hand-colouring ; platemark 38.5 x 49.8 cm, on sheet 40.7 x 54.4 cm
Description
View of a ruined castle with a round tower, surrounded by trees and a wooden fence, on a mound to left, with men and horses on the path in the foreground, one pointing down the slope towards a field, which rises after a dip, where cattle are grazing; with a large tree and wooden fence on a slope in the right foreground. Publication line written in ink. Description in English reads 'It is situated on the descent of a Hill, about two miles West of Hythe: Its remains bear marks of great Antiquity, but when, or by whom founded, is not certain: It has been suppos'd to be the famous Portius Lemanis; but that the Sea had retired from its spacious Haven, one a Harbour for 250 Danish Vessels, Anno 893. Here it was that Prince Edward, exacted the Oath from the Barons of the Cinque Ports.'
Place
Kent (England)
Additional information
Full publication line reads 'London, Pubd. Jany. 31. 1790 by F. Jukes Engraver, Howland Street.' taken from a print from the same plate in the British Museum 1917,1208.2814.
Other persons
Dayes, Edward, 1763-1804, artist.
Shelfmark
Maps K.Top.18.34.1.