Print of steel engraving titled „Bristol from Rownham Ferry“.

Artist W. H. Bartlett.

Engraved by S. Bradshaw.

Bristol is a city, unitary authority and county in South West England with an estimated 2014 population of 437,500. People from the city are known as Bristolians. It is England's sixth- and the United Kingdom's eighth-most-populous city, and the most populous city in Southern England outside London.

Rownham Ferry is an ancient crossing point of the River Avon. The Ferry's history goes back at least to the twelfth century and it may have been a fording point at very low tides (doubtless a very unpleasant muddy one) before that. For most of its life the Ferry crossed the River Avon near the entrance of the Avon Gorge. From the New Inn on the then Somerset side of the river, crossing the River Avon to Rownham Tavern, (demolished in 1873) in Hotwells.

Approx. image size 18, 3 x 12, 2/27, 1 x 19, 9 cm. Condition: medium.