The Free School, Sandwich, Kent. Etching by Ravenhill, 1787, after G. Maxwell.

[Kent] : Wm. Boys Esqr, 4 June 1787.

1 print : etching with engraving ; platemark 17 x 20.1 cm

To the Rev. John Conant, M.A. this plate of the Free School in Sandwich, is respectfully inscribed by Wm. Boys. ; Ravenhill sculp. ; G. Maxwell delin.

Thomas Cox Reynolds, 'Character of Mr. George Maxwell, an excellent young artist', Gentleman's magazine, March 1790, 60: 201-4 ("It may be proper to mention, that all the plates in the patriotic Mr. Boys's 'History and antiquities of Sandwich' are from drawings of his making; but, as the engraver has not done him justice in more than one or two of the plates, he is seen at a great disadvantage even there.")

Wellcome Collection 22748i

Dedicated to John Conant, MA of Lincoln College Oxford, rector of St Peter's Church, Sandwich, and vicar of Selling, Kent