West front, Mathematical School, Christ's Hospital: 1775
N. Smith
Category
Art / Prints
Date
1 Jan 1793
Materials
Paper, glass and wood
Measurements
Image - 216 mm (width); 323 mm (height), Frame - 362 mm (height)
Place of origin
Great Mays Buildings, St. Martins Lane
Order this imageCollection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 670831
Summary
Print, West front, Mathematical School, Christ's Hospital: 1775. A framed print depicting the west front of the Mathematical School, Christ's Hospital 1775. A black and white print depicting a large building with a statue inside a niche on the front facade, and a church on the right in the distance. The image is framed in a brown oval with the following text in printed copperplate beneath: 'Sir Robert Clayton, Knt. Alderman of London. Projected a design of founding a free School for instructing the Children of poorer citizens in mathematical learning, and fitting them for Sea-service. He acquainted Lord Treasurer Clifford, with his purpose, who readily engaged to lay it before King Charles II. He obtained of his Majesty, for seven years successively £500 arrears of interest due on £7000. charged on some Crown Lands, which before the Restoration had been left to the Hospital. Sir Christopher Wren was the Architect, under whose direction the hall and Cloisters, with other parts of the Hospital, which had been damaged by the fire in 1666, were repaired and improved. see Pennants London'.
Marks and inscriptions
Inside and beneath the oval frame: 'The West Front of the Mathematical School, Christ's Hospital 1775/ Benj. Green del and sculp./ London Publish'd Jany.1-1793 by N Smith Gt. Mays Buildings St. Martins Lane.'
Makers and roles
N. Smith, engraver and publisher