Sparrow

Ruined abbeys, castles and churches engraved by Sparrow for Francis Grose’s Antiquities of England and Wales form the heart ...

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Ruined abbeys, castles and churches engraved by Sparrow for Francis Grose’s Antiquities of England and Wales form the heart of this collection, with a smaller group of Swiss views. Malvern Priory, Stratford Langthorne Abbey, Latton Priory and castles in Pembrokeshire are recorded in their landscape settings for eighteenth-century readers. Samuel Sparrow is documented as an engraver for Grose, while the Swiss sheets of Fribourg and the Gottéron valley carry only the surname and circulated in other publications and later impressions.

Ruined abbeys, castles and churches engraved by Sparrow for Francis Grose’s Antiquities of England and Wales form the heart of this collection, with a smaller group of Swiss views. Malvern Priory, Stratford Langthorne Abbey, Latton Priory and castles in Pembrokeshire are recorded in their landscape settings for eighteenth-century readers. Samuel Sparrow is documented as an engraver for Grose, while the Swiss sheets of Fribourg and the Gottéron valley carry only the surname and circulated in other publications and later impressions.

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