print;
frontispiece
- Museum number
- 1849,0721.501
- Title
- Object: Minerva instructing Britannia in the Use of the Celestial and Terrestial Globes
- Description
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Frontispiece to William Frederick Martyn's 'Geography', Vol. I (London, 1782-85); one of four prints pasted to the same album sheet.
Britannia standing on the right, watching as Minerva indicates elements on a globe in front of them; in a roundel with figures in the spandrels; state republished 1784, date erased. 1782
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1782
- Dimensions
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Height: 169 millimetres (image)
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Width: 124 millimetres (image)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- For an earlier state, see 1849,0721.350
Included in the first volume of Balmanno's collection of Stothard's work in BM P&D. See 1849,0721.1 for more information.
Republished subsequently in 'The Geographical Magazine' or 'New System of Geography', according to Heath.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Geography
- Acquisition date
- 1849
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1849,0721.501