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Framed Prints Scroll down for our Summer Special Offer
We specialise in
original engravings (prints) of the City of Carlisle, of other parts of
Cumberland We sell framed
prints via
our shop Souvenir Antiques, in Long Lane, off Castle Street, Carlisle. We also sell via Bookcase
in Castle Street, Carlisle which is open from Monday to Saturday between
Click on one of the buttons below to see our current selection of framed prints for sale in both locations. SPECIAL OFFER Framed engravings by Joseph Wilkinson, 1810
Mounted and Framed, just £45 each (normally £60) (scroll down for slideshow) The Revd. Joseph Wilkinson, 1764 – 1831 Born in Carlisle, Wilkinson was educated at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Following his graduation in 1794, he became a Fellow of the College and was appointed a Minor Canon of Carlisle, living at Ormathwaite near Keswick. In 1803, he was appointed Rector of Wrotham in Norfolk and lived in Norfolk until his death in 1831. Wilkinson was a prolific and accomplished artist and watercolourist who possibly exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1783. Examples of his paintings can be seen in the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Abbot Hall Gallery in Kendal, Carlisle Art Gallery (Tullie House) and in Carlisle Library. Engravings from his delicate sketches of the Lake District were included in Ackermann’s Select Views of Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire which was published in 1810 (2nd edition 1824) with an unattributed introduction by William Wordsworth. This introduction was later expanded into Wordsworth’s own Guide to the Lakes. The engravings are attractively framed in wooden frames with gilt inner borders. The overall size of each frame is 19 inches by 16 inches. Although the engravings date from 1810, the mounts and frames are modern. The eight framed engravings available, which are mostly of the Borrowdale and Newlands Valleys in the northern lakes are illustrated below.
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