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Object Type
print
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
British
Production date
1789
Production place
Published in:
London (England)
Materials
paper
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
Portrait of:
Maria Cosway
Associated places
Topographic representation of:
London
Acquisition name
Purchased from:
Miss E Sheean
Acquisition date
1877
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
1877,0609.43