BUSH HILL PARK, MIDDLESEX 1794 William Ellis - Robert Nixon ENGRAVING

Original 1794 4 inch x 6 3/8 inch Etching and Engraving titled BUSH HILL PARK, MIDDLESEX
From The Copperplate Magazine, or Monthly Cabinet of Picturesque Prints 1792-1803.

View of parkland with a large house glimpsed to right in front of trees, a river snaking into the foreground and disappearing to left, with a man and a woman holding fishing rods talking on the near bank to right and another woman sitting fishing to left.
Bush Hill Park was farmland that was part of an estate centred on Bush Hill Park House, a country house. The estate changed hands several times in the 18th century before coming under the ownership of William Mellish, a merchant and MP for Middlesex. By this time the estate covered 438 acres, one of the largest in the parish.

Print by William Ellis (1747 - 1810). An English engraver and oil painter. Ellis was born in London in 1747, the son of a writing engraver. He was placed as a pupil with William Woollett. He produced some fine plates in the style of his teacher, some being executed in conjunction with him, including the two portraits of Rubens and his wife, published in 1774; A River Scene with a Windmill, after Salomon Ruysdael, published in 1777; Solitude, after Richard Wilson, published in 1778; and two scenes from the Vicar of Wakefield, after Thomas Hearne, published in 1780, and exhibited at the Society of Artists in that year.
Ellis engraved several topographical views after Paul Sandby and Thomas Hearne, a set of The Seasons after Hearne, and some plates for the Ladies' Magazine. In 1800 he aquatinted a set of engravings of Views of the Memorable Victory of the Nile engraved by Francis Chesham from paintings by William Anderson. Between 1783 and 1793 he lived at 9 Gwynne's Buildings, Islington

From a picture by Robert Nixon (1759 - 1837), Curate of Foot's Cray in Kent, artist and 'honorary exhibitor' at the Royal Academy.

Published by Harrison & Co. (1772 - 1838), 18 Paternoster Row, London.

Inscription below the image: 'Plate 58, Engraved by Ellis from an Original Drawing by the Revd. R. Nixon. / Published June 1st. 1794, by Harrison & Co. No,, 18 Paternoster Row, London.'

Plate size 8 3/4 inch x 11 inch

The engraving is in very good condition with slight age-related toning.