The Irish Linen Industry: a Perspective View of a Scutch Mill, with the Method of Breaking the Flax - Plate V
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 283318.5
Summary
Print, stipple etching, tinted with watercolour, The Irish Linen Industry: a Perspective View of a Scutch Mill, with the Method of Breaking the Flax - Plate V 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 V in a rectangular mount (WBM.PR.3,e) illustrates Rollers(1) and Scutching blades(2). Each print has a dedicatory inscription and explanatory text underneath the plate.
Marks and inscriptions
1.Rollers/2.Scutching blades
Makers and roles
William Hincks (Waterford 1752 - 1797), engraver (printmaker) Linen Hall Library, engraver and publisher