print
- Museum number
- 1880,1113.1773
- Title
- Object: An Exact and Lively Mapp or Representation of Booths and all the varieties of showes and humours upon the Ice on the River of Thames by London ... Anno Dm. MDCLXXXIII.
- Description
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View of the Thames in the winter; groups of people skating, driving carriages and sleighs and walking around stalls arranged in two rows, with London Bridge in the background, text within cartouche above and text below; pen and ink lines have been drawn over the print to form a grid of eight across and four down, in each rectangle a roman numeral printed running from I to X from left to right, and then repeated. 1684
Engraving
- Production date
- 1684
- Dimensions
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Height: 380 millimetres
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Width: 436 millimetres (trimmed)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- For impression without grid and roman numerals, and for further discussion see 1880,1113.1772
For further comment on the Frost Fair see 1880,1113.1768
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated events
- Associated Event: Frost Fair 1684
- Acquisition date
- 1880
- Acquisition notes
- The Crace Catalogue states: "The following interesting Views of Frost Fairs upon the Thames are in a separate volume, and were given to the Editor by his friend, Mrs George"
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1880,1113.1773