Publisher/Manufacturer: Samuel and Nathaniel Buck 1736 Engraving in black on white laid paper
313 x 800 mm. Loan: John Challinor 1988
The inscription reads "THIS City stands pleasantly on ye beautiful banks of ye river Itchin, & contains about a mile & a half within ye Walls, besides ye Suburbs; 'twas ye famous city of ye British Belgæ, by Ptolomy and Antoninus call'd Ventæ Belgarum, ye Britains to this day Caer-Gwent, ye Saxons Wintancester. The Roman Emporers seem to have had at this place, their Imperial weaving shops where ye cloaths for ye Emporers; & ye Army, as well as Sails for their ships, Linnen and other necessary furniture, for their houses were wove. ...[continued at length]"
Annotated topographical view of Winchester; foreground, open ground of St Giles Hill with two men describing the view to two women wearing long dresses; middleground, houses, rooftops with chimneys, two churches, a gateway tower, trees and the river Itchin; background, a flood plain, fields, hills and the city of Winchester with a cathedral, church spires, church towers, houses, a hospital, gardens, trees, roads, the Kings Palace and the the ruins of the Bishops Palace. Extensive text on the lower margin explaining the city of Winchester accompanied by a vignette of a shield depicting a castle towers and lions. Annotated 1 to 29, from St Cross Hospital to St John's Church in ye Stoke
