The North Prospect of Westminster Abbey

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

James Collins, draughtsman and line engraver of topographical and architectural views, was for at least part of his career based at Lynsted near Sittingbourne, Kent. His works include engravings of Westminster Abbey and Canterbury Cathedral, and views of Rochester and Chatham Dock. Collins usually worked on commissions for printsellers or booksellers, but occasionally published prints himself.

Places

England, London, Westminster Abbey, Westminster

Subjects

carriage, topography, genre, townscape/cityscape, horse, boy, man, woman, dress, child, abbey, church, church windows, buttress

Materials & Techniques

engraving, coloured engraving

Artist

James Collins

Title

The North Prospect of Westminster Abbey

Date

published 1724

Medium

Coloured engraving

Acquisition

Purchased 1947-1948

Inscription

below image: [bottom right, in ink] XIII

GAC number

494