Plate VII. Irish Linen Industry: Winding, Warping with a new improved Warping Mill, and WeavingTitle
Robert Pollard (Newcastle-upon-Tyne 1755/6 – London 1839)
Category
Art / Prints
Date
1791
Materials
Glass, Paint, Paper, Wood
Measurements
500 x 595 mm
Place of origin
Spitalfields
Order this imageCollection
Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1336688
Summary
Print; Aquatint etching - Aquatint, framed in dark wood, beaded frame and mounted with dark glass and gold surround, depicts the process of warping, dated 1791. In a timber framed attic, with a small window, there is a woman working a loom, and a man turning the handle of the driving machine of the warping mill. The threads are being wound onto two bobbins in a frame. In the background is a young boy in a blue coat operating a spinning wheel. A cat is on the sill of the window frame in the rear gable wall. Entitled as follows: 'To the RIGHT Honble the EARL of HERTFORD, VISCT., VISCOUNT BEAUCHAMP, LORD CONWAY, BARON of BAGLEY, and BARON of KILLALTAGH in IRELAND, and KNIGHT of the MOST NOBLE ORDER of the GARTER; this plate representing winding, warping with a new improved warping mill and weaving is most respectfully inscribed by his Lordship's most obedient humble servant Wm Hincks. London published as the Act directs by R. Pollard, Spitafields, June 20, 1791'. There is a crest in the middle of this text with the motto 'Fidere et Amore'. Below the picture to the left: 'Plate VII' and to the right: 'WM Hincks delin et sculp'. In bottom left corner: 1. winding 2. warping 3. the old frame 4. weaving Backed with brown paper, torn in several places. Holes left from old hangings, and corks stuck to bottom of back. Handwritten on a white sticker reverse 'HM1363'. There is a copy in the British Museum Prints and Drawings Department; museum number 1877,0113.376.
Provenance
Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.
Marks and inscriptions
(on reverse) 'HM1363'
Makers and roles
Robert Pollard (Newcastle-upon-Tyne 1755/6 – London 1839) William Hinks (1752-1797), artist