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.

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

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