PERSPECTIVE VIEW OF CAERNARVON CASTLE 1771 ANTIQUE ENGRAVING

Original 1771 6 1/8 inch x 11 inch copper plate engraving titled PERSPECTIVE VIEW OF CAERNARVON CASTLE, IN THE COUNTY OF CAERNARVON.

The large castle dominating the town with several towers, a high gatehouse, some of the masonry crumbling, a long wall surrounding the town with numerous houses within, with the spire of a church rising beyond, other houses outside the walls, ships and boats on the water to the right.

After an earlier engraving by Nathaniel Buck (1696 - 1779) and Samuel Buck (1696 - 1779).
The Buck brothers recorded ruins throughout England and published 428 engravings of monasteries, abbeys, castles and ruins and 87 long prospects of English and Welsh towns, producing a record of England and Wales before the Industrial Revolution.

From ‘The complete English Traveller; a new survey and Description of England and wales. Containing a full Account of whatever is curious and entertaining in the several Counties of England and Wales, The Isles of Man, Jersey, Guernsey, and other islands adjoining to, and dependant on the Crown of Great Britain’ by Nathaniel Spencer.

Printed for John Cooke, Shakespeare’s Head, Paternoster Row, London 1771.

Page size 9 inch x 14 inch

The engraving, on chain-laid paper, is in very good condition with minor age related toning. Reverse side blank.