Beschriftung/Aufschrift
Th. Smith Pin. [Maler];
F. Vivares Sculp. [Stecher];
The South East View of Kirkstall Abbey, two Miles from Leeds, in Yorkshire, it was founded AD 1147 by Jl Lacy of Pontifract, for Monks of the Cistercian Order, it belongs to ye RA Hon the Earl of Cardigan. To whom this Plate is humbly inscribd by his Lordships most Obed. Servt. T Smith
Publish´d 1769 by J. Boydell Engraver in Cheapside N°. 90, H. Parker in Cornhill N°.82, & J. Bowles N°.13 in Cornhill, London.