0. S.l.s.d. original copper engraving, portrait of Laurence Echard, 260 x 182 mm, engraved caption and coat of arms underneath. Mounted on a large thick 19th-century paper leaf . Laurence Echard (circa 1670 - 1730), apart from being known as archdeacon of Stowe, is also remembered as the historian who wrote ''the History of England''.