...This PLAN is most humbly inscribed to MATTHEW BLAKISTON Esqr. Alderman of BISHOP-GATE WARD, 1754, copperplate engraving, presented behind mat in contemporary gilt wooden frame (16-1/2 x 21-1/4 in.).

Private Collection of an Antiquarian, Charlotte, North Carolina

Lightly toned paper; the frame with minor losses to gilt and underlying gesso.