print
- Museum number
- 1870,1008.589
- Title
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Object: View of the Encampment in the Museum Garden. August 5th 1780
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Series: The Virtuosi's Museum
- Description
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Plate 99: View from the garden looking towards the museum, which is on the left, tents erected on lawns outside to the right; a soldier stands outside a tent in right foreground, a lady sits in central foreground next to a standing soldier who leans towards her, a man sits on the grass behind, further figures walk up path towards the tent; soldiers stand in formation outside museum. 1780
Etching
- Production date
- 1780
- Dimensions
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Height: 173 millimetres
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Width: 212 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See 1958,0619.2
The 'Virtuosi's Museum' is rarely concerned with London, and of the four London views recorded by Adams, three are of the encampments in Hyde Park. The views are recorded by Adams as aquatints, although all of the illustrations in the BM copy are complete etchings: this may derive from confusion between the 'Virtuosi' etchings and certain closely related plates in the two sets of small etchings, since some of those also appeared as aquatints. This plate is also closely related to one of the four large aquatints Sandby produced of the encampments, 1872, 0713.475. For more details, see 1904,0819.733.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated events
- Associated Event: Gordon Riots 1780
- Acquisition date
- 1870
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1870,1008.589