Cary, Francis

Stonehenge, the Roman baths at Bath and ancient coins drawn with meticulous care fill these prints by Francis Cary, an Engli...

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Stonehenge, the Roman baths at Bath and ancient coins drawn with meticulous care fill these prints by Francis Cary, an English engraver of the antiquarian age. Cary was active in the later eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and these prints date from around 1780 to 1814. British, Roman and Saxon coins share the plates with ancient camps, plans and elevations of Lincoln Castle and Irish cairns and raths, while views of Lübeck, Marburg and Lyon bring in continental towns. The emphasis is on recording form exactly, whether a coin's design, the layout of an earthwork or surviving masonry against a ground plan, in the manner of antiquarian books and periodicals before photography.

Stonehenge, the Roman baths at Bath and ancient coins drawn with meticulous care fill these prints by Francis Cary, an English engraver of the antiquarian age. Cary was active in the later eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and these prints date from around 1780 to 1814. British, Roman and Saxon coins share the plates with ancient camps, plans and elevations of Lincoln Castle and Irish cairns and raths, while views of Lübeck, Marburg and Lyon bring in continental towns. The emphasis is on recording form exactly, whether a coin's design, the layout of an earthwork or surviving masonry against a ground plan, in the manner of antiquarian books and periodicals before photography.

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