The Morning of the Glorious First of June 1794

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

Benjamin Thomas Pouncy was a pupil of printmaker William Woollett. From 1772 to 1789 he exhibited mainly watercolour views of Kent at the Society of Artists and the Royal Academy. He was also a printmaker, producing plates for antiquarian and travel books, and making etchings and engravings after his own designs. He worked collaboratively with Woolett on some prints. In the 1770s, he produced illustrations for the librarian at Lambeth Palace, historian Andrew Coltee. He later made copies of medieval manuscripts for archivist and collector Thomas Astle’s ‘The Origin and Progress of Writing’ (1784). Engraver and watercolourist Joseph Powell lodged with Pouncy in Lambeth for a time and may have been his pupil. He died in Lambeth in 1799.

Places

Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic

Subjects

topography, seascape/coastal scene, smoke, sea, wave, flag, Glorious First of June, ship

Materials & Techniques

engraving, coloured engraving

Artist

Robert Cleveley (1747 - 1809)
Benjamin Thomas Pouncy ( - 1799)

Title

The Morning of the Glorious First of June 1794

Date

published 1 August 1795

Medium

Coloured engraving

Dimensions

height: cm, width: cm

Acquisition

Purchased from the Parker Gallery, January 1959

GAC number

15446