Devizes by Dawson Robert Kearsley (1 results)
Published by London, 1832. 250 x 200mm (9¾ x 7¾ inches). 1832
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Original coloured lithograph; light age-toning to the edges of the paper, minor spotting & soiling, otherwise a very good example. A plan of Devizes, from a composite volume of the 'Plans of the Cities and Boroughs of England and Wales'. Robert Kearsley Dawson (1798 -1861) the son of surveyor Robert Dawson, was born in Dover, he… went on to study at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. In 1818 he was commissioned into the Royal Engineers, and between 1819 and 1829 took part in the triangulation and mapping of Ireland and Scotland under Thomas Colby. In 1831 he was to survey the boundaries of the proposed Parliamentary Boroughs for the Great Reform Act.
