FISHERWICK HALL ENGLAND 1686 BURGHERS & PIOT SCARCE ANTIQUE COPPER ENGRAVED VIEW ANTIQUE COPPER ENGRAVED VIEW OF FISHERWICK HALL ENGLAND Condition: --not specified Ended: Jan 01, 2023 21:19:39 PST Winning bid: US $37.00 FISHERWICK HALL ENGLAND 1686 BURGHERS & PIOT SCARCE ANTIQUE COPPER ENGRAVED VIEW Description To the right Honble. JOHN Visc. MASSEREEN Baron of LOUGH - NEAGH one of his Majtie. most Honble. Privy Council in ye Kingdom of IRELAND This 15 Table Shewing the S.S.E. Prospect of his Lordship's seat at Fisherwick as a pledg of my gratitude is humbly presented. Description: Striking and highly detailed fine unusual 1686 Robert Plot's copper engraved panoramis view of Fisherwick Hall, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom. A strapwork title cartouche with large Armorial adorns the sheet. The plate has been engraved by Michael Burghers. Source: Robert Plot. The Natural History of Staffordshire By Robert Plot, LLD. Keeper of the Ashmolean Musжum and Professor of Chymistry in the University of Oxford. Ye shall Describe the Land, and bring the Description hither to Me. Joshua, Oxford printed at the Theatre, Anno M. DC. LXXXVI. (1686). Date: 1686 ( undated ) Dimension: Paper size approx.: cm 36,1 x 31,9 Conditions: Very strong and dark impression on good paper. Paper with chains. Map uncolored. Wide margins. Corners partially missing. Small foxing. Small browning. Small marginal tears. Small waterstains. Map folded. Conditions are as you can see in the images. Writer: Robert Plot (1640-96) was born in Kent and received a BA degree from Oxford University in 1661, an MA in 1664 and a Law degrees in 1671. In 1677 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society and became. Secretary in 1682. He was responsible for the publication of Nos. 143 to 166 of The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. In 1683 Elias Ashmole appointed him as the first keeper of his museum, the now well known Ashmolean Museum and Bodleian Library in Oxford. Although there for just seven years, Plot acquisitioned a vast collection of what were considered natural curiosities, many of which he hadescribed in both his histories of Oxfordshire and Staffordshire. These objects are still today preserved in the Ashmolean Museum. He did not complete his life ambitions to write, as he intended, the Natural Histories of Kent and Middlesex for which several extensive MSS survived him. He achieved many more distinctions before his death on April 30th 1696. Robert Plot was not a freemason. His love was the study of natural history and this is reflected in his publications, including the folio size Natural History of Staffordshire printed in Oxford in 1686. Engraver: Michael Burghers, or Burgers [Utrecht or Amsterdam, c. 1640 – 1733 (between 1723 and 1743 or in January 1727)], was a Dutch Golden Age engraver and draftsman. Probably born in Utrecht or Amsterdam around 1640, he worked in Oxford between 1676 and 1723. However he was already active from 1674, as evidenced by the first documented payment, and until 1725-1726, as evidenced by the last. He reached England with David Loggan, of whom he was probably a pupil, and settled in 1673 at Oxford [, due to the capture of Utrecht by Louis XIV. Between 1676 and 1719, he took care of the realization of all the illustrations of the Oxford Almanac. Loggan was appointed publicus academiae sculptor in 1669 and Burghers worked under him, succeeding him in July 1694. According to Thomas Hearne, at the time of his death he was very wealthy and considered the best engraver in England. In fact, he received large sums of money from the University of Oxford for his engravings, up to about Ј100 a year, to which was added the revenue for the prints sold directly by him. He actually owned his own printing press with which he made small editions of his own prints and tested the works for the University. In addition to illustrations for the Almanac, he also executed title pages for books, such as for Robert Plot's De origine fontium (1685) and illustrations for the 1688 edition of John Milton's Paradise Lost from drawings by John Baptist Medina . He made many small views of new buildings at Queen's College and drew an exact plan of the old chapel before it was torn down. In addition to making new moulds, he also took care of fixing pre-existing ones and making prints. Burghers sometimes signed his works with the monogram MB. Большая Антикварная Гравюра Фишервик-холл (Fisherwick Hall), Англия, 1686 Высокодетализированная редкая панорамная гравюра - оттиск с медной пластины - 1686 года работы Роберта Плота, представляющая вид на Фишервик-холл (Fisherwick Hall), Стаффордшир, Англия. Лист украшен картушем с названием в стиле «страпворк» (орнаментальная резьба) и крупным гербом. Лист из издания Robert Plot. The Natural History of Staffordshire By Robert Plot, LLD. Keeper of the Ashmolean Musжum and Professor of Chymistry in the University of Oxford. Ye shall Describe the Land, and bring the Description hither to Me. Joshua, Oxford printed at the Theatre, Anno M. DC. LXXXVI. (1686). Дата: 1686 (не указана на самом листе). Размер листа 36,1 x 31,9 см. Очень четкий оттиск на качественной бумаге. Бумага верже. Гравюра не раскрашена. Широкие поля. Частично отсутствуют углы. Незначительные лисьи пятна (фоксинг). Небольшое пожелтение. Маленькие надрывы по краям. Незначительные следы от воды. Издательсский фальц. Состояние соответствует представленным изображениям. Robert Plot (1640–1696) родился в Кенте, получил степень бакалавра в Оксфордском университете в 1661 году, магистра — в 1664-м и степень доктора права — в 1671-м. В 1677 году он был избран членом Королевского общества, став его секретарем в 1682 году. Он отвечал за издание выпусков № 143–166 «Философских трудов Королевского общества». В 1683 году Элиас Эшмол назначил его первым хранителем своего музея — ныне знаменитого Музея Эшмола и Бодлианской библиотеки в Оксфорде. Несмотря на то, что он пробыл там всего семь лет, Плот собрал огромную коллекцию предметов, считавшихся «природными диковинками», многие из которых он описал в своих трудах по истории Оксфордшира и Стаффордшира. Эти объекты до сих пор хранятся в Музее Эшмола. Он не успел осуществить свои жизненные амбиции по написанию «Естественной истории» Кента и Мидлсекса, для которых после него осталось несколько обширных рукописей. До своей смерти 30 апреля 1696 года он удостоился множества других отличий. Роберт Плот не был масоном. Его страстью было изучение естественной истории, что отражено в его публикациях, включая фолиант «Естественная история Стаффордшира», напечатанный в Оксфорде в 1686 году. Гравер Michael Burghers был голландским гравером и рисовальщиком Золотого века. 11712