A Prospect of Britain: Illustrations

A Prospect of Britain: Town Panoramas of Samuel and Nathaniel Buck is a book by Ralph Hyde. Every year, from 1728 to 1753, the brothers Samuel and Nathaniel Buck travelled the length and breadth of England and Wales, producing a series of panoramas. The book features a number of their panoramic views of cities and towns such as St Paul's Cathedral and London Bridge, and also surveys their lives and working methods, their techniques of advertising, engraving and selling their prospects, and also provides descriptions of each subject. Ralph Hyde's research folder 'A Prospect of Britain: Illustrations' pertains to his book, and contains a number of images from the British Museum, the British Library and original photographs of 'The West View of Lestormel Castle, in the County of Cornwall'. The folder also includes written correspondence between Ralph Hyde and the curator of the Usher Gallery, librarians at the Guildhall Library and Bodleian Library, applications for permission to reproduce photographs and related invoices for borrowing and lending of sources. The items in this folder are not labelled, though there are roughly 25 images pertaining to Ralph Hyde's novel.

Part of the Ralph Hyde Collection