The Irish Linen Industry: the common Method of Beetling, Scutching and Hackling the Flax - Plate IV
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 283318.4
Summary
Print, stipple etching, tinted with watercolour, The Irish Linen Industry: the common Method of Beetling, Scutching and Hackling the Flax - Plate IV 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 IV in an oval mount (WBM.PR.3,d) illustrates Beetling(1), Scutching(2), Hackling(3). Each print has a dedicatory inscription and explanatory text underneath the plate.
Marks and inscriptions
1.Beetling/2.Scutching/3.Hackling
Makers and roles
William Hincks (Waterford 1752 - 1797), engraver (printmaker) Linen Hall Library, engraver and publisher