Surrey Prints

9x7 cm

Pit Place, the seat (of) Jewdewine Esq.^r Surrey.
Drawn & Engraved by I Hassell.
London. Pub.1.Aug.^t 1816 by I.Hassell.

Aquatint in original hand colour by John Hassell published in a two volume work: Picturesque Rides and Walks, with Excursions by Water, Thirty miles round the Metropolis...London, John Hassell 1817-1818.

John Hassell (1767?-1825) was an English landscape painter, engraver, illustrator writer, publisher, drawing master, friend and biographer of fellow artist George Morland.
The work included 120 aquatint engravings. Aquatint is an etching process using powdered rosin to create tones on the copperplate which, when hand coloured with watercolour washes after printing, gave the effect of a watercolour painting. The small two volume work was expensive to produce and sales were limited, the work and surviving plates are scarce today.

Thomas Jeudwine, a London velvet weaver, acquired the estate c.1793 and made many alterations to the house and estate.
This plate also appeared in the work with a later title; Pit Place, the seat of Rowland Stephenson Esq.^r . The date is unchanged at 1816 but an announcement in The Times 30th July 1817, records the sale by auction of the estate, the property of Thomas Jeudwine. This falls within the publication period of the work and the plate was updated during publication to include the new owner, Rowland Stephenson.
The property was also known as Pitt Place or Pit Pallace.

Fingermarking to margins.