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Object Type
Museum number: 1904,0819.576
Title: Object: The Fair Stationer in Hyde Park 1780; Series: Ten Views of Encampments in Hyde-Park and Black-Heath (first series)
Description: View of a row of tents and temporary shelters, one with the sign "Lloyds Coffee House", a group of four ladies outside, in foreground to right four children play, trees in background on left, a building in distance on right; plate IIII. 1780 Outline etching hand-coloured with grey wash
Producer name: Print made by: Paul Sandby; Published by: Paul Sandby
School/style
Production date: 1780
Production place: Published in: London (England)
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 224 millimetres (trimmed); Width: 291 millimetres (trimmed)
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: Formerly in a bound volume of etchings by Paul Sandby, collected by his descendent and biographer William Sandby and bequeathed by him to the British Museum. The binding was removed in 2012, but the contents (apart from a few mounted prints) have been kept in order in one box. See 1904,0819.429 for further details. For further information on the set, see 1904,0819.733
Bibliographic references: Gunn 2015 / The Prints of Paul Sandby (1731-1809): a catalogue raisonné (358); Adams 1983 / London Illustrated 1604-1850: a survey and index of topographical books and their plates (59) (undescribed)
Location: Not on display
Subjects
Associated places: Topographic representation of: London
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1904
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1904,0819.576

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