print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1873,0510.110
- Title
- Object: Coventry.
- Description
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View of a street in Coventry; the King's Head Inn at right, next to it at centre a shop with the name 'Sharp' and a date stone for the year 1760, a man looking out of one doorway and a couple kissing in another; at an upper window of Sharp's, the figure of a man, 'Peeping Tom', looking out from an upper window, commemorating Lady Godiva's ride through the city, a group of people across the street looking at it in amusement; illustration to Henry Wigstead, 'Remarks on a tour to North and South Wales, in the year 1797' (London, 1800). 1799
Etching and aquatint printed in grey and black
- Production date
- 1799
- Dimensions
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Height: 133 millimetres (cropped)
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Width: 215 millimetres (cropped)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The book consisted of 69 pages of text by Henry Wigstead, illustrated with 22 prints after designs by the author, Rowlandson, Pugh and Howitt, dated August 1799 to February 1800 and published by W Wigstead. Abbey gives two title-pages, the first lettered 'Remarks on A Tour to North and South Wales, in the Year 1797, by Henry Wigstead, / With Plates From Rowlandson, Pugh, Howitt, &c. (Aquatinted by I. Hill.) / London. Published by W. Wigstead No. 40, Charing Cross, 1800.'; the second without the aquatinter's name. The text has the added production line 'Printed by J. Bateson, Denmark Street, Soho'.
For a set of the illustrations, see 1873,0510.110-131.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Remarks on a tour to North and South Wales, in the year 1797
- Acquisition date
- 1873
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1873,0510.110