| Method | Copper engraved |
| Artist | Basire, James |
| Published | Engraved by James Basire for Hasted's History of Kent, 1797. |
| Dimensions | 190 x 303 mm |
| Notes |
Text below image: To Charles Small Pybus Esq. one of the Right Honble. the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, and M.P. for the Town and Port of Dover, This Plate, engraved from and Original Drawing, made in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, and now remaining in the State Paper Office, is Inscribed, with much respect and gratitude by The Author. A plan of Dover port in Kent engraved for Hasted's History of Kent. The port appears as it would have been during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. Edward Hasted (1732 - 1812) was an English antiquarian and pioneering historian of his ancestral home county of Kent. He authored The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent between 1778–99. Hasted also published a separate History of the Antient and Metropolitical City of Canterbury Civil and Ecclesiastical in 1799. James Basire (1730 - 1832) was a British engraver, often confused with his son of the same name. In 1745, Basire was apprenticed to the engraver Richard William Seale and afterwards travelled to Italy with the artist and engraver Roger Dalton. By the 1760s he had established a successful engraving practice. In 1755 Basire was appointed engraver to the Society of Antiquaries and after that time documentary or pictorial antiquarian engraving formed the majority of his work. Basire is best remembered for his 1770 engraving of the historical painting The Field of the Cloth of Gold (c.1550-80) that depicts the festivities following the meeting of Henry VIII with the French King Francis I in 1520. This was the largest engraving ever made and took Basire over two years to complete. Between 1761 and 1783, he exhibited his prints at the Free Society of Artists. Both of his sons, James and Richard Woolett, were apprenticed to him, but more notably, so was William Blake. Condition: Some minor time toning and foxing to sheet. |
| Framing | unmounted |
| Price | £50.00 |
| Stock ID | 47822 |