Title
View of St Mary Redcliff Church, Bristol; from a Drawing in the Collection of the Revd Mr Elderton.
Publication details
[London] : [Printed by JOHN NICHOLS, at Cicero's Head, Red Lion Passage, Fleet-Street: And sold by ELIZ. NEWBERY, the Corner of St. Paul's Church Yard, Ludgate-Street], [1792]
Physical details
1 print : etching and engraving ; sheet 10.9 x 17 cm
Description
Figures hauling a net onto the shore; fishermen and boats on the water; the church of St Mary Redcliffe and the city of Bristol in the distance.
Place
Bristol (England)
Additional information
This print was an illustration to the Gentleman's magazine, January 1792, page 9. It bore the engraved inscription 'Gent.Mag.Jany 1792 Pt.I.p.9.' and was accompanied by a letter on the following page: 'Mr. Urban, Bath, Oct. 6, 1791. I SEND you a sketch (Plate 1.) of St. Mary Redcli_ Church, Bristol, in which parish the Poet Chatterton (of whom so much has been recorded in some former volumes of your valuable Miscellany) was born. I am told his mother is now living '*, and in very distressed circumstances. - Yours, &e. J. ELDERTON. [She died since the date of this letter. See our last supplement. EDIT. GENT. MAG. January, 1792]'. Publishing information taken from the frontispiece to the Gentleman's Magazine, 1792.
Shelfmark
Maps K.Top.37.38.l.