The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
Henry Watkinson (1628 - 1712)
Chancellor of York. Donator of object(s)Relevant locations: Residence at Leeds, Leeds Parish
Linked manuscript items: as Sender of a letter - "[Letter from Henry Watkinson to Ralph Thoresby]," Yorkshire Archaeological Society MS20, Leeds
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:
Prints, Histories, Maps, &c. shall for Brevi
ty's Sake be wholly waved, (except some Prospects
betwixt
Evelyn Esq
the noted NanteĀil, and are not to be met with, save in private
Hands.) But Designs drawn by the Pens of ingenious
Gentlemen
ought to be particularly valued. Of these I have some
noted
Hollars;
the Via Appia, &c. taken by
to
L L D, and Chancellor to four Archbishops of
Native of
Gentleman, particularly
Yorke, Leedes,
Durham, Newcastle, Berwick, .
Carlisle, Edinburgh, Glascow, &c
Entrochiand
Astroites,
MultangularTower and
inserted in theRoman Wall
best
Monumentat
etched by him:
Stories high of Arch-work, which is rare to be had, though printed.
Hen. Gyles
and Light-House
Fran. Place
has performed that Cathedral most accurately; as also both the
Churches and Prospect of
curious Pen of the
incomparableMr. Sharp , as he is stiled by the Pub
lisher of some of his accurate Performances (
b)
b) (
a)
Math. Tables contrived after a most comprehensive Way, p. 55
ent to exhibit the Circumference of the Globe of the Earth, so tru
ly as not to err the Breadth of a Grain of Sand in the whole."
These Artists are only mentioned last, because still surviving.
painted with exquisite Art in the Parish Church of
J. Permentier
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