Wiltshire Prints

19x22 cm

Copper engraving by Johannes Kip published in William Camden's Britannia from 1695.
Later hand colour.
Typeset text description of Stonehenge below and verso.
Text below the engraving begins: Our country-men reckon this among the wonders of the Nation. For it is unaccountable, how such stones should come here (seeing all that country wants ordinary stones for building;) and by what means they were raised. Of these thimgs I shall not attempt an exact account, but only lament, that the founders of this noble Monument cannot be trac'd out.