S. Hooper

Canterbury's West Gate and Wincheap Gate and the ruins of Leicester Abbey are the subjects of these prints published by S. H...

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Canterbury's West Gate and Wincheap Gate and the ruins of Leicester Abbey are the subjects of these prints published by S. Hooper, the late eighteenth-century London bookseller and print publisher closely associated with Francis Grose's illustrated studies of British antiquities. The sheets date from the 1780s, when medieval gates, abbeys and castle remains were being recorded for readers who cared about Britain's older buildings. The two gates show contrasting survivals of the same city defences, and the abbey the remains of a religious house, all recorded before later clearance, restoration and redevelopment.

Canterbury's West Gate and Wincheap Gate and the ruins of Leicester Abbey are the subjects of these prints published by S. Hooper, the late eighteenth-century London bookseller and print publisher closely associated with Francis Grose's illustrated studies of British antiquities. The sheets date from the 1780s, when medieval gates, abbeys and castle remains were being recorded for readers who cared about Britain's older buildings. The two gates show contrasting survivals of the same city defences, and the abbey the remains of a religious house, all recorded before later clearance, restoration and redevelopment.

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