St Michaels Mount Cornwall antique print 1786

Antique print of St Michaels Mount, a small tidal island in Mount’s Bay, Cornwall. It was given to the Benedictine religious order of Mont Saint-Michel by Edward the Confessor in the 11th century. It was a priory of that abbey until the dissolution of the alien houses as a side-effect of the war in France by Henry V when it was given to the Abbess and Convent of Syon at Isleworth, Middlesex in 1424. It was finally transferred to a secular use with the dissolution of the monasteries. 

Original copper-plate engraved print from ‘The Antiquities of England and Wales’ by Francis Grose, dated in the plate 26th. October, 1786. Paper size approx. 10.75 x 8 inches. . Excellent condition. A rare item.