To the Right Worshipful Robert Claxton Esqr, Mayor of Bristol, This View of St. Stephen's, in that City Is with his Permission most respectfully Inscribed by his Worship's most obedient & obliged humble servant, John Marks. | |
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| Technique: Aquatint |
| Colour: Original colour |
| Dimensions: 590 x 410 mm |
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| Location: Bristol |
| City: Bristol |
| Bristol: St. Stephen's Church |
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| Production |
| Artist: Marks J |
| Engraver: Thomas Cartwright |
| Published by: John Marks, No. 5 Edward Street, Cavendish Square |
| Date: 1800 |
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Title is followed by an extract from the Bristol Guide page 43:
This church was built about 347 since in the reign of Henry the Sixth, by John Shipward a Merchant & Mayor of Bristol & is universally admired the tower is about 140 feet high of a square figure ornamented from the bottom upward in the Gothic taste at each of the four corners on the top is a pinnacle of curious hollow work which contains a bell whereon the clock strikes these pinnacles are connected on each side by a lofty battlement of the like hollow work the whole appears so exquisitely light & beautiful that connoisseurs in general say it is no where surpassed. |
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Antique Aquatint - "To the Right Worshipful Robert Claxton Esqr, Mayor of Bristol, This View of St. Stephen's, in that City Is with his Permission most respectfully Inscribed by his Worship's most obedient & obliged humble servant, John Marks." by after J Marks published 1800 by John Marks, No. 5 Edward Street, Cavendish Square. |