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A View of the Great Room etc. at Hall-Barn near Beaconsfield in Buckinghamshire, a Seat of Edmund Waller Esq. ~Vüe de la grand Sale &c. a Hall-Barn dans la Comté de Bucks, appertenant a Edmund Waller Ecuyer.
W. Woollett del. et sculp.
Printed for Carrington Bowles, in S.t Paul's Church Yard, John Bowles in Cornhil, Henry Parker in Cornhil, John Boydell in Cheapside, and Robert Sayer in Fleet Street.
Engraving. 370 x 540mm. Aged tone to paper outside platemark.
William Woollett (August 15, 1735 - May 23, 1785), English engraver, was born at Maidstone, of a family which came originally from the Netherlands. He was apprenticed to John Tinney, an engraver in Fleet Street, London, and studied in the St Martin's Lane Academy. In 1775 he was appointed engraver-in-ordinary to George III; and he was a member of the Incorporated Society of Artists. In his plates, which unite work with the etching-needle, the dry-point and the graver, Woollett shows the greatest richness and variety of execution. In his landscapes the rendering of water is particularly excellent. His works rank among the great productions of the English school of engraving.
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