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Object Type
Museum number: 1877,0609.43
Title: Object: A View from Mr Cosway's Breakfast-Room Pall Mall; Series: Delices de la Grande Bretagne
Description: View through a window in Schomberg House looking out to Westminster Hall, St Margaret's, and the Abbey with the Mall in the middle distance; a young woman in the foreground to the right looking out of the window, a dog at her lap. 1789 Etching with stipple
Producer name: Print made by: William Russell Birch; After: William Hodges; After: Richard Cosway; Published by: William Russell Birch; Published by: T Thornton
School/style
Production date: 1789
Production place: Published in: London (England)
Materials
Technique: etching; stipple
Dimensions: Height: 146 millimetres; Width: 174 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: For comment see 1880,1113.1757 See also Isabel Combs Stuebe, 'The Life and Works of William Hodges' (1979) cat. 508, p.303; Cataloguing supported by the Pilgrim Trust
Bibliographic references: Adams 1983 / London Illustrated 1604-1850: a survey and index of topographical books and their plates (69.6); Daniell 1890 / A Catalogue Raisonné of the Engraved Works of Richard Cosway, R.A. (38); O'Donoghue 1908-25 / Catalogue of Engraved British Portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum (7)
Location: Not on display
Associated names
Associated places: Topographic representation of: London
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1877
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1877,0609.43

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