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Covent Garden Market : Westminster Election / Pugin & Rowlandson del. et sculp., J. Bluck aquat.

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Thomas Rowlandson
1756-1827

Covent Garden Market : Westminster Election / Pugin & Rowlandson del. et sculp., J. Bluck aquat.

Published

London : Published by Rudolph Ackermann, Repository of Arts, 101 Strand, 1 July 1808.

hand-colored etching and aquatint
image: 194 x 260 mm ; plate mark: 232 x 278 mm ; sheet: 247 x 295 mm
Peel 2013
Provenance

Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.

Summary

A busy view of Covent Garden during a Westminster election, dominated by St. Paul's Church. A large crowd is gathered in the piazza for the hustings, some waving colorful banners.

Associated names
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, former owner.
Bluck, John (Printmaker), printmaker.
Pugin, Augustus, 1762-1832, artist, printmaker.
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher.
Bibliography

Illustration for: Rudolph Ackermann's 'Microcosm of London' [1808], volume 1.

Classification
Department
Century prints