Lancashire Prints

20x24 cm

TO PUDSEY DAWSON, ESQ,  THIS VIEW OF THE SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND,  with the intended Additional Building, IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED, BY HIS OBEDIENT SERVANT, T. TROUGHTON.

Wood engraving originally published in parts issues by Thomas Troughton from 1806. William Robinson then acquired the woodblocks and published them in The History of Liverpool from the Earliest Authenticated Period down to The Present Time...William Robinson, Liverpool, 1810.

The Liverpool School for the Indigent Blind was founded in 1791 by Edward Rushton, in lodging houses in Commutation Row. In 1800 the school moved into a purpose built building in London Road. This plate shows the proposed extension built in 1812. The buildings were demolished in 1851 to make way for Lime Street Station and the school moved to Hardman Street. The school continues in Wavertree.

Uncommon. Old hand colour.