print
- Museum number
- 1875,0508.1426
- Title
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Object: A General View of the City of London, next the River Thames
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Series: A Collection of views of old London and its environs
- Description
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Bird's eye view over London, taken from a point mid-stream on the Thames, looking west; shipping in foreground before London Bridge; Blackfriars Bridge and St Paul's beyond, and Westminster Bridge and Abbey in the distance on the left; a later state. c.1750, this state c.1840
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1750 (c.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 278 millimetres
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Width: 425 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This print was first published in the series 'Perspective views in and about London', listed in John Bowles' catalogue for 1753, this plate number 4. This impression was published with West's 'Collection of Views', all taken from the stock of John Bowles and his successors, and published c.1840.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1875
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1875,0508.1426
