FRONTISPIECE 1771 Charles Grignion - Samuel Wale ANTIQUE ENGRAVING

Original 1771 6 3/4 inch x 4 1/4 inch copper plate engraving titled FRONTISPIECE.

View the four Quarters of the Globe Combin’d, / To yeild Instruction to the Libral Mind; / BRITANNIA’S Genius, seated on her Throne / Receives their Gifts, and makes them all her own.

Engraving with decorative border.

Engraved by Charles Grignion (1721 - 1810). Engraver of French origin but worked and died in England; very active in middle decades of the century.

After Samuel Wale (1721 – 1786). An English historical painter and book illustrator. His main work was in designing vignettes and illustrations on a small scale for the booksellers.

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 good condition with minor age related toning and some edge creasing. The engraving has been mounted on to thin card. Reverse side blank.