Battle of the Boyne, July 1st 1690 (after Jan Wyck)
John Brooks (c.1710 - c.1756)
Category
Art / Prints
Date
Unknown
Materials
Mezzotint engraving on paper
Measurements
445 x 704 mm
Place of origin
Holborn Hill
Order this imageCollection
Florence Court, County Fermanagh
NT 631209
Summary
Print, engraving, Battle of the Boyne, July 1st 1690, (after Jan Wyck) by John Brooks (fl.1730-1756). A black and white engraving of the Battle of the Boyne July 1st 1690 printed for F Kitchen, engraved at no 59 Holborn Hill, London. From the original in the collection of the Earl of Leicester lower right, Wyke Pinks. [Holkham Hall?] Lower border trimmed. Equestrian portrait of William III, profile to right holding staff, head turned, looking towards the viewer, with his army, offficers and notables on horseback behind him, including Prince George of Denmark, Lord Sidney, Foubert, Major General Scrayenmore, Count Solmes, Major-General Scrayenmore, Rev George Walker, Earls of Oxford and Portland and Dukes of Ormond, Grafton and Schomberg; canons firing in front of them, cavalry charging from r, the battle-field on a plain below ringed by rolling hills
Marks and inscriptions
Wyke Pinks.
Makers and roles
John Brooks (c.1710 - c.1756), engraver (printmaker) after Jan Wyck (Haarlem 1645 - Mortlake 1700), artist