print; book-illustration

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Object Type: print; book-illustration
Museum number: 1948,0410.53
Title: Object: Cliefden [sic]
Description: View with two men in the foreground walking along an elevated path to left, a forest behind the path below, the Cliveden House on top of a hill in the background, the Thames on the left; after Farington; plate 37 to the first volume of "A History of the River Thames" within 'A History of the Principal Rivers of Great Britain' (1794). 1793 Hand-coloured etching and aquatint
Producer name: Print made by: Joseph Constantine Stadler; After: Joseph Farington; Published by: Josiah Boydell; Published by: John Boydell
School/style
Production date: 1793
Production place: Published in: London (England)
Materials
Technique: etching; aquatint; hand-coloured
Dimensions: Height: 210 millimetres (border); Height: 190 millimetres (image); Height: 248 millimetres (platemark); Width: 302 millimetres; Width: 323 millimetres; Width: 361 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: For comment, see 1948,0410.69.
Bibliographic references: Abbey Scenery / Scenery of Great Britain & Ireland in Aquatint & Lithography from the Library of J.R.Abbey (432.37); Adams 1983 / London Illustrated 1604-1850: a survey and index of topographical books and their plates (75.37)
Location: Not on display
Subjects
Associated names
Associated places: Topographic representation of: Cliveden; Topographic representation of: River Thames
Associated titles: Associated Title: A History of the Principal Rivers of Great Britain; Associated Title: A History of the River Thames (vol.1)
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1948
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1948,0410.53

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