print
- Museum number
- 1954,1103.265
- Title
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Object: Machico
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Series: Madeira Illustrated 1840
- Description
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Title page; view of a harbour with mountains in the background and two sailing boats to left, framed in foliage including cactuses and palms. 1840
Lithograph printed with a beige tone plate
- Production date
- 1840
- Dimensions
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Height: 538 millimetres (sheet)
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Height: 404 millimetres
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Width: 359 millimetres (sheet)
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Width: 275 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- A set of ten lithographs. Abbey gives details from the paper boards: 'Price Plain £2.2.0 / Coloured 4.4.0 / Madeira / Illustrated / by Andrew Picken, / with a / (uncoloured vignette, 'Point St Lourenço) / description of the Island / edited by / Dr James macaulay, M.A. / Published by the author at Day & Haghe's, Lithrs. to the Queen, / and / Hodgson & Graves, Printsellers to Her Majesty'.
The set was accompanied by 21 pages of text with the imprint 'T.C. Savill, Printer, 107, St Martin's Lane'. Abbey states that a second edition appeared in 1842, with the date altered and 'Second Edition' added above the title page in some cases.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1954
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1954,1103.265