print
- Museum number
- 1875,0508.1461
- Title
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Object: A South View of Westminster Abby & St Margarets Church
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Series: A Collection of View of old London and it environs
- Description
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View from the street of Westminster Abbey, with St Margaret's Church further back on the left, and the Abbey prominent on the right; fashionably dressed figures in foreground, a sedan chair in the centre. 1753, this state c.1840
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1753
- Dimensions
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Height: 265 millimetres
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Width: 405 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This print was first listed in Bowles's 1753 catalogue under the heading 'Perspective Views in and about London', beginning on page 43, this plate number 21. The plate has been re-published a number of different times, before it was published by Francis West in the mid-nineteenth century as part of his 'Collection of Views'. All the plates from this series were taken from the stock of John Bowles and his successors, and most were first printed around the mid-eighteenth century.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1875
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1875,0508.1461