The Itrish Linen Industry: View taken near Hillsborough in the County of Downe, Representing Pulling the Flax when grown, Hooking or putting it up to Dry, Ripling or saving the Seed, and Boging or burying it in Water - Plate II
William Hincks (Waterford 1752 - 1797)
Category
Art / Prints
Date
Unknown
Materials
Glass, Paper, Wood
Measurements
445 x 510 mm
Place of origin
Northern Ireland
Order this imageCollection
Wellbrook Beetling Mill, County Tyrone
NT 283318.2
Summary
Print, stipple etching, tinted with watercolour, The Itrish Linen Industry: View taken near Hillsborough in the County of Downe, Representing Pulling the Flax when grown, Hooking or putting it up to Dry, Ripling or saving the Seed, and Boging or burying it in Water - Plate II by William Hincks (Waterford 1752 - 1797). One of a set of twelve prints in tinted watercolour with wood frame and gilt sight edge of engravings by William Hincks showing the processes of the linen industry, 1783 - 1785, reproduced by the Linen Hall Library. Purchased by the North Coast Northern Ireland National Trust Members' Association as a gift for The National Trust. Plate II in a oval mount (WBM.PR.3,b) illustrates Flax (1), Pulling (2), Stooking (3), Ripling (4) and Boging (5). Each print has a dedicatory inscription and explanatory text underneath the plate.
Marks and inscriptions
1.Flax/2.Pulling/3.Stooking/4.Ripling/5.Boging
Makers and roles
William Hincks (Waterford 1752 - 1797), engraver (printmaker) Linen Hall Library, engraver and publisher