Lancashire Prints

20x24 cm

TO GEORGE CASE, Esq,  THIS VIEW OF THE ATHENÆUM,  IS HUMBLY 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 Athenæum, built in 1799 on Church Street, the building was demolished in the 1720's for the widening of Church Street and the Athenæum moved to Church Alley. 

Uncommon. Old hand colour.