BIB_ID
413401
Accession number
MA 205.17
Creator
Stadler, Joseph Constantine, etcher
Published
[London] : Pubd. June, 1st. 1795, by J & J Boydell, Shakspeare - Gallery, Pall Mall, & No. 90, Cheapside, 1795.
Credit line
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.
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.
Provenance
Purchased from the London dealer Sotheran, 1896.
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.
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