Source Description:

Title: Bishton Hall, Staffordshire
Artist: Unknown
Engraver / Plate  Maker: Unknown

This print appears in Marshall's Select Views in Great Britain.  Bishton Hall is a Georgian Mansion, set amongst 25 acres of gardens in the heart of rural Staffordshire. Bishton is first mentioned in the Domesday book, a survey of the properties of England completed for William I in 1096. The house dates back to around 1750, with the east wing added during the Victorian era. The grounds feature a unique temple garden, a Doric screen based on the temples of ancient Greece and one of the largest of its kind in England.

Description:

The view printed on this large earthenware dinner plate only appears on a plate and similarly sized soup bowl. The more common name used for this series is America and Independence, due to those words appearing on the plate. This is No. 3 in Arman's numbering system.

The central pattern on this example is taken from the source print shown below.   Prior to discovery of the source prints that Clews used for these patterns, researchers David and Linda Arman endeavored to provide descriptive names for them.  The Armans named this scene Building, Fishermen with Net.  Although the building in the source print below appears to be the same as that on the plate, the source print does not show a body of water or fishermen.  The print, in stead, includes a lawn with sheep.