Burlington, Charles

Cathedral cities, Thames-side villages and aristocratic estates fill the prints from Charles Burlington's Modern Universal B...

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Cathedral cities, Thames-side villages and aristocratic estates fill the prints from Charles Burlington's Modern Universal British Traveller, published in 1779. Burlington wrote on England for the work, while David Llewellyn Rees covered Wales and Alexander Murray Scotland. The plates range from Canterbury, Salisbury and Ely to growing towns such as Birmingham and Leicester, and give the river a prominent place with views of Richmond, Putney, Fulham and Isleworth. Houses and gardens at Chiswick, Wilton and Bagshot, abbey ruins and an allegorical frontispiece complete the series. Burlington's name marks the authorship and catalogue grouping, and the images should not be assumed to be his own engraving.

Cathedral cities, Thames-side villages and aristocratic estates fill the prints from Charles Burlington's Modern Universal British Traveller, published in 1779. Burlington wrote on England for the work, while David Llewellyn Rees covered Wales and Alexander Murray Scotland. The plates range from Canterbury, Salisbury and Ely to growing towns such as Birmingham and Leicester, and give the river a prominent place with views of Richmond, Putney, Fulham and Isleworth. Houses and gardens at Chiswick, Wilton and Bagshot, abbey ruins and an allegorical frontispiece complete the series. Burlington's name marks the authorship and catalogue grouping, and the images should not be assumed to be his own engraving.

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