Title
To the Right Honble Lord Minto &c. &c. This INSIDE VIEW of MELROSS ABBEY : is with great respect most humbly inscribed by his Lordships obedient and obliged Servants J. Steuart and F. Jukes. / Drawn by C. Catton ; Engraved by F. Jukes.
Creator
Jukes, Francis, 1745-1812, printmaker, publisher.
Publication details
London : Pubd March 31st 1798. F. Jukes No10 Howland Street., [March 31 1798]
Physical details
1 print : aquatint and etching with hand-colouring ; sheet 45 x 60.7 cm
Description
A ruined abbey, with tall, vaulted arches and pointed windows with gothic tracery, three men working to shore it up with brickwork on the right, one on the grass with cement to his right, gesturing to the others on a scaffold above, and a man, woman and dog walking beside the pillars of an archway on the right.
Place
Melrose (Scottish Borders, Scotland)
Additional information
A print from the same plate is in the British Museum 1872,0609.72 .
Other persons
Catton, Charles, 1756-1819, artist.
Shelfmark
Maps K.Top.50.92.c.