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£18 1816 Seat of Jacob Warner Hornsey Hassell Ref: 6036.40
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The Seat of J. Warner Esq.r Hornsey, Mid.x
Drawn & Engraved by I Hassell. 
London. Pub.1.May 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 engravingsAquatint 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.

Jacob Warner was a wealthy London wholesale grocer who purchased the 18 acre estate in Hornsey in 1796. The aquatint shows his red bricked house seen from Mitchell's Hills, now Alexandra Park, before Warner replaced it a few years later with a larger castellated Gothic mansion called The Priory.

Some fingermarking to bottom edge. 

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