£8 Liverpool School for the Blind
1806
Ref: p6233
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20x24 cm
TO THE EARL OF WILTON, President, AND THE REST OF THE COMMITTEE, THIS VIEW OF THE SCHOOL, FOR THE BLIND, IS HUMBLY INSCRIBED, BY THEIR 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. This plate shows the new purpose built school erected in 1800 in London Road. Extended 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.
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