Good dark image which would look great framed. This print is in very good condition and is on a sheet 12.5 x 8.5 inches (32 x 22 cm). The view itself is approx 6.5 x 5 inches (17 x 13 cm). with the text below and on the reverse describing the view. This print was published in an 1787 edition of "The Antiquities of England by Francis Grose". Due to my scanner the scan is a little cropped but in reality the print is complete with good margins. There is some minor spots in the margins around the image but the image itself is quite clean.

Francis Grose (1731–1791) was an antiquary and lexicographer, of Swiss extraction. He published Antiquities of England and Wales (1773–87), which was well received, and thereafter, in 1789, set out on an antiquarian tour through Scotland, the fruit of which was Antiquity of Scotland (1789–91). He afterwards undertook a similar expedition to Ireland, but died suddenly at Dublin.

The Water Tower is located on the end of a spur wall on the north west corner of the city walls. The Water Tower or as it was called then 'new tower' was constructed in the time of Edward II (1322-25) at a cost of £100. John de Helpston was the mason in charge. It was deemed necessary to build it as the course of the River Dee had significantly altered and silted up. Like a similar tower at Conway, now lost, it served to defend the harbour, and would have stood in the river Dee, which has now moved another 200 yards away.

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