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print
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book-illustration
Object Type
print
book-illustration
Museum number
1871,0812.141
Title
Object:
Blenheim
Description
View with the Blenheim Palace in the left background, a bridge over lake in the right middle distance, a couple strolling in the left foreground; after Farington; plate 10 to the first volume of "A History of the River Thames" within 'A History of the Principal Rivers of Great Britain' (1794). 1793 Hand-coloured etching with aquatint
Producer name
Print made by:
Joseph Constantine Stadler
After:
Joseph Farington
Published by:
Josiah Boydell
Published by:
John Boydell
School/style
British
Production date
1793
Production place
Published in:
London (England)
Materials
paper
Technique
etching
aquatint
hand-coloured
Dimensions
Height:
207 millimetres
(border)
Height:
188 millimetres
(image)
Width:
300 millimetres
Width:
320 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
For comment, see 1948,0410.69.
Bibliographic references
Abbey Scenery / Scenery of Great Britain & Ireland in Aquatint & Lithography from the Library of J.R.Abbey
(432.10)
Adams 1983 / London Illustrated 1604-1850: a survey and index of topographical books and their plates
(75.10)
Location
Not on display
Subjects
palace/mansion
Associated names
Illustration to:
William Combe
Associated places
Topographic representation of:
Woodstock (Oxfordshire)
(Blenheim Palace)
Associated titles
Associated Title:
A History of the Principal Rivers of Great Britain
Associated Title:
A History of the River Thames
(vol.1)
Acquisition name
Purchased from:
Joseph Lilly
Purchased through:
Sotheby's
(sale June 1871, lot 1324)
Purchased through:
Edward Daniell
Previous owner
Previous owner/ex-collection:
James Brown
Acquisition date
1871
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
1871,0812.141