print; album

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Object Type: print; album
Museum number: 1931,0413.332
Title: Object: Tower of Colmenar on the Banks of the Tagus, near Aranjuez
Description: View of a square tower of a fortress carved partly from a conical mountain, seen across a broad river with trees lining the water on the far shore and bushes and a tall leafy tree at the edge of the bank in the right foreground; after Lord Grantham; plate 1 in a set of six; before plate number. 1790 Etching
Producer name: Print made by: Amabel Hume-Campbell, Countess De Grey; After: Thomas Robinson, 2nd Baron Grantham
School/style
Production date: 1790
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 211 millimetres (trimmed); Width: 280 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: The print is pasted in volume II of Richard Bull's collection of prints by amateurs, see 1931,0413.1. See 1917,1208.2634. Kept with a letter from printmaker addressed to Bull, to present her prints for his volumes (text reproduced in full in curatorial comment for 1917,1208.2630).
Location: Not on display
Associated places: Topographic representation of: Aranjuez
Acquisition name
Previous owner: Previous owner/ex-collection: Amabel Hume-Campbell, Countess De Grey; Previous owner/ex-collection: Richard Bull; Previous owner/ex-collection: Elizabeth Bull; Previous owner/ex-collection: Richard Henry Alexander Bennet; Previous owner/ex-collection: Richard Henry Alexander Bennet
Acquisition date: 1931
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1931,0413.332

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