1732 SOUTH WEST PROSPECT CITY OF LICHFIELD Staffordshire Antique Print by BUCK

BUCK, Samuel

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1732 THE SOUTH WEST PROSPECT OF THE CITY OF LICHFIELD A fine original large panoramic print engraved by Samuel Nathaniel Buck.Size approx 80cm x 31cm including margins. Condition is generally fine with central fold as issued.Samuel Buck and his younger brother Nathaniel, were topographical artists and engravers who, from about 1720 to 1753 toured England and Wales recording the architectural antiquities of both countries. Prior to BuckĀ s magnificent copper plate panoramas, virtually nothing had been done to depict views of significant English cities and towns. Only a handful were included in the atlas by Braun and Hogenberg in their Civitates Orbis Terrurum published in Cologne in 1581. They also produced a series of panoramic views of the cities, seaports and capital towns and by doing so, created a valuable record of what English and Welsh towns and cites looked like before the onset of the Industrial Revolution. In all, the two brothers produced 423 engravings of monasteries, abbeys, castles and other ruins and 87 panoramic prospects of towns and cities which taken altogether, may be regarded as one of the most important documentary projects of the 18th.Century. Indeed Ralph Hyde declares that,the Buck peregrinations were uncomfortable, dangerous and exhausting. In such conditions, their persistence and single-mindedness in pursuing their systematic recording of England and Wales year after year until the task was complete and their goal accomplished is downright heroic (The Town Panoramas of Samuel and Nathaniel Buck). Seller Inventory # LM36-5220341

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