The Morning of the Glorious First of June 1794
Robert Cleveley (1747 - 1809)
Benjamin Thomas Pouncy ( - 1799)
Coloured engraving
published 1 August 1795-
About the work
- Location
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Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection
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About the artist
Benjamin Thomas Pouncy was a pupil of printmaker William Woollett. From 1772 to 1789 he exhibited mainly watercolour views of Kent at the Society of Artists and the Royal Academy. He was also a printmaker, producing plates for antiquarian and travel books, and making etchings and engravings after his own designs. He worked collaboratively with Woolett on some prints. In the 1770s, he produced illustrations for the librarian at Lambeth Palace, historian Andrew Coltee. He later made copies of medieval manuscripts for archivist and collector Thomas Astle’s ‘The Origin and Progress of Writing’ (1784). Engraver and watercolourist Joseph Powell lodged with Pouncy in Lambeth for a time and may have been his pupil. He died in Lambeth in 1799.
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Explore
- Places
- Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic
- Subjects
- topography, seascape/coastal scene, smoke, sea, wave, flag, Glorious First of June, ship
- Materials & Techniques
- engraving, coloured engraving
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Details
- Title
- The Morning of the Glorious First of June 1794
- Date
- published 1 August 1795
- Medium
- Coloured engraving
- Dimensions
- height: cm, width: cm
- Acquisition
- Purchased from the Parker Gallery, January 1959
- GAC number
- 15446