Rochester, Stroud and Chatham, Medway, Kent

Catalogue entry

[from] Picturesque Views in England and Wales pub.1827–38 [T04503-T04612; T05081-T05104; T05873; complete]

Twenty-four line-engravings, by various engravers and in various states, comprising twenty-four subjects out of a total of ninety-six (see also T04503-T04612 above); various papers and sizes; some annotated in pencil with initials of unidentified collector ‘FHB’
Purchased (Grant-in-Aid) 1988
Prov: ...; N.W. Lott and H.J. Gerrish Ltd, from whom bt by Tate Gallery (earlier provenance given in individual entries where known)
Lit: As for T04503-T04612

For the publishing history of this series, see under T04503-T04612.

T05104 Rochester, Stroud and Chatham, Medway engr. J.C. Varrall, pub.1838

Line-engraving 162 × 242 (6 3/8 × 9 9/16) on India paper laid on wove paper 435 × 601 (17 1/8 × 23 5/8); plate-mark 243 × 320 (9 9/16 × 12 5/8); Turner studio blind stamp
Prov: As for T05083
Lit: Rawlinson I 1908, no.301, first published state; Shanes 1979, no.95, repr. (British Museum impression)

Published in part XXIV, no.1. Original watercolour: destroyed by fire, 1955 (Shanes 1979, no.95; Wilton 1979, no.877).

Published in:
Tate Gallery: Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions 1986-88, London 1996

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