Druids temple found in the island of Jersey [graphic]

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Title: Druids temple found in the island of Jersey [graphic]
Creator: Newton, James, 1748-approximately 1804, printmaker
Contributor: Hooper, S. publisher.
Published / Created: Feby. 15th, 1787.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published by S. Hooper
Description: Title etched below image.
Plate from: Grose, F. The antiquities of England and Wales. London : Hooper & Wigstead, 1783-1797, v. 8.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Mounted on page 253 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13.
1 print : etching on laid paper ; sheet 14.5 x 19.1 cm.
Note in ink below image on mounting sheet: There is a model of this Druid temple in wood at Strawberry Hill.
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Provenance: Mrs. Curtis, of Langford Hall, Newark, Nottinghamshire; August 1937. Sold at Sotheby's 29 April-1 May 1880 (Bull sale), lot 886, to Ellis, £110. Offered by Ellis & White in Catalogue 46, ca. 1881 for £210. Sold at Sotheby's 15(16) June 1920?, lot 243 to Lynch, (C. Constable Curtis of Langford Hall, Newark, Nottinghamshire), £255.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 13.2 x 19 cm
Language: English

Genre: Pictorial works
Book illustrations
Etchings England London 1787
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): Jersey
Subject (Topic): Antiquities
Archaeological sites
Subjects: Jersey > Pictorial works
Antiquities
Archaeological sites
England > London > 1787
Bawtree, William, 1744-1824 > Ownership
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership
Curtis, Charles Constable, 1852-1936 > Ownership
Curtis, Edith Fanny Onslow, -1944 > Ownership

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