Wiltshire Prints

16x22 cm

SALISBURY CATHEDRAL CHURCH 
NORTH PORCH
TO SIR RICHARD COLT HOARE. BAR.^T who has laudably employed his talents & fortune, in producing some useful works on Topography & Antiquities, this plate is inscribed by the Author.
Drawn by F. MacKenzie _for Britton's History &c. of Salisbury Cathedral. Engraved by J. Le Keux
London. Published Jan.^y 2.1815 by Longman & Co. Paternoster Row.
Printed by Hayward.
Fine steel engraving by John Le Keux (1783-1846) after a drawing by Frederick MacKenzie (1788?-1854) British watercolourist and architectural draughtsman for publication in Britton's Architectural Antiquities Longman & Co. London.1815.
The engraver, John Le Keux, was born in Sun Street, Bishopsgate on 4th June 1783, the eldest son of Peter Le Keux, a pewterer of Hugenot descent and his wife Anne Dyer. First apprenticed to his father, for the last four years of his term, Le Keux changed to engraver, James Basire, to whom his brother Henry (1787-1868) was already apprenticed. He married Sophia Lingard in 1809 and was the father of John Henry Le Keux (1812-1896) who also became an engraver.
Hand coloured. Some light creases in the margins.