print; book-illustration

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Object Type: print; book-illustration
Museum number: 1948,0410.66
Title: Object: Woolwich
Description: View with a mother and child with dog in the right foreground, walking along a path to the left, the town of Woolwich in the middle distance across an elevated field, ships sailing in the Thames in the left background; after Farington; plate 22 to the second volume of "A History of the River Thames" within 'A History of the Principal Rivers of Great Britain' (1796). 1795 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: 1795
Production place: Published in: London (England)
Materials
Technique: etching; aquatint; hand-coloured
Dimensions: Height: 217 millimetres (border); Height: 198 millimetres (image); Height: 255 millimetres (platemark); Width: 302 millimetres; Width: 321 millimetres; Width: 357 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 (432.68); Adams 1983 / London Illustrated 1604-1850: a survey and index of topographical books and their plates (75.68)
Location: Not on display
Associated names
Associated places: Topographic representation of: London
Associated titles: Associated Title: A History of the Principal Rivers of Great Britain; Associated Title: A History of the River Thames (vol.2)
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1948
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1948,0410.66

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