Okeover Hall, Staffordshire

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

Engraver and draughtsman Michael Burghers was born in Amsterdam and apprenticed to an engraver from a young age. He left the Netherlands soon after 1672 and spent much of his life working for the University of Oxford, where he established a virtual monopoly on engraving. After the death of artist and engraver David Loggan in 1692, Burghers succeeded him as ‘calcographus academicus’. He produced plates depicting a wide range of subjects, including natural history specimens, antiquities, maps and portraits. He also designed and engraved most of the plates for the Oxford almanacks, from the first edition in 1676 to 1719. His eyesight declined in the final years of his life, impeding his ability to work.

Places

England, Okeover Hall, Staffordshire

Subjects

topography, tree, dog, woman, girl, 17th century costume, coat of arms, fence, topiary, garden, country house/mansion, church

Materials & Techniques

engraving, coloured engraving

Artist

Michael Burghers (1647/8 - 1727)

Title

Okeover Hall, Staffordshire

Date

published 1686

Medium

Coloured engraving

Acquisition

Purchased from Baynton-Williams, February 1978

GAC number

13733