Publisher/Manufacturer: Samuel and Nathaniel Buck 1734 Engraving in black on white wove paper
306 x 795 mm. Loan: John Challinor 1988
Inscription reads "THIS Ancient City was call'd by ye Britains Caer Glon, ye Romans from them call'd it Clevum & Glevum, & made it one of their Stations, fortyfying it and planting a Colony there to curb ye People of South Wales. The Saxons named it Gleavecester or Gleaucester. Ceaulin a K: of ye West Saxons, took it from ye Britains An: 570, but it soon came into ye hands of ye Kings of Mercia under whom it flourish'd a long time... [continued at length]"
Annotated topographical view of Gloucester; foreground, a dog, a basket, three fishermen, a bridge over a river, a toll house, sporadic trees, a road, travellers and horses with packs; middleground, the flood plain of the river Severn, sailing boats with cargo, rowing boats, fields, cattle, horses, sheep, sporadic trees and a road with horses pulling a wagon / cart; background, distant hills, fields and the city of Gloucester with a cathedral, church towers, church spires, Trinity Tower, windmills, houses, a bridge, a quay, moored sailing boats, the ruins of Llanthony Priory / Abbey, windmills and a gateway. Extensive text on the lower margin explaining the city of Gloucester accompanied by a vignette of a shield. Annotated 1 to 22, Lackington Hill to The Ruins of Lantony Abbey
