Record ID:
413401
Accession number:
MA 205.17
Published:
[London] : Pubd. June, 1st. 1795, by J & J Boydell, Shakspeare - Gallery, Pall Mall, & No. 90, Cheapside, 1795.
Credit:
Purchased, 1896.
Description:
1 print : etching and aquatint ; image: 190 x 298 mm ; sheet: 213 x 319 mm
Notes:
Published as plate 2 to the second volume of William Combe's within A History of the Principal Rivers of Great Britain (also known by the added title: An History of the River Thames), London : Printed by W. Bulmer & Co., for John and Josiah Boydell, 1794-1796.
Impression printed in brown ink.
Formerly housed with the manuscript of Johnson's Life of Pope and other items; for more information see main record for MA 205.
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Signed with the artist's initials within the image at lower left.
Summary:
Print shows a view of Alexander Pope's house in the middle distance behind willow trees, the Thames in the foreground, four figures rowing a canopied boat on the right, a forest in the background.
Provenance:
Purchased from the London dealer Sotheran, 1896.
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