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Jac[ ] Dawson ( - )

Linked print sources: as Donator of object(s) - Ducatus Leodiensis; or the topography of the town and parish of Leedes and parts adjacent ...
References in Documents:
Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713)

Copper-Plates. The noted Gate-House at Wærton, engraved by Hollar, and inserted in Thoroton's Hist. of Nottinghamshire (pag. 98.) Don. D. Jo. Boulter Arm. Lambeth-House or Pallace, etched by Mr. Will Lodge of Leedes. Also some Italian Ruins, with a distant Prospect of Rome, by the same ingenious Gent. St. George and Dragon, and other two of uncertain Hands. The Picture of Mr. Henry Gyles, the famous Glass-Painter at Yorke, wrought in Mezzo-Tinto, by the celebrated Mr. Fran. Place, when that Art was known to few others. Bought, with other Curiosities, of Mr. Gyles's Executors. Ticho Brahe's System very well engraved upon Wood for the Printing-Press. A Dye from the Mint for coining Brass-Pennies, when private Tradesman had Liberty of inserting their Names and Device (this is Beware of the Beare 1670, round that Animal) upon their currant Monies. Don. D. Jac. Dawson. One Stamp inscribed, White Clothiers Seale. Another Faulty to mark the Delinquents.