PROSPECT OF BATTLE ABBY, A BENEDICTINE MONASTERY 1771 ANTIQUE ENGRAVING

Original 1771 6 1/8 inch x 11 inch copper plate engraving titled PROSPECT OF BATTLE ABBY, A BENEDICTINE MONASTERY IN THE COUNTY OF SUSSEX.

View of Battle Abbey, the partially ruined but still elegant abbey buildings with embattled roofs and turrets surrounding a central lawn with an avenue of small ornamental trees, surrounded by a low wall, other buildings beyond, three figures in the foreground.

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.