Print from the panoramic series of ‘Cities, Sea-ports, and Capital Towns’ of England and Wales that the Buck brothers began from 1728. Samuel, joined by Nathaniel from 1724, spent his career as a printmaker recording first views of antiquities and towns of Yorkshire and subsequently the major towns of England in a number of projects only later called collectively 'Buck's Antiquities' after the plates had passed, by 1774, into the hands of Robert Sayer. They continued to be reissued into the early 19th century. Altogether 'they published 428 engravings of monasteries, abbeys, castles, and other ruins, three unsigned engravings of Fountains Abbey, two town plans, an engraving of Bristol high cross, and eighty-seven long prospects of English and Welsh towns. Collectively their engravings constitute a national survey of ruins of the period, and provide us with an indispensable record of what English and Welsh towns looked like before the industrial revolution' (Oxford Dictionary of National Biography). In this view from Clifton the River Avon and port area lies on the right, partly hidden behind the square tower of Bristol Cathedral, with the then unfinished spire of St Mary Redcliffe further upstream.