print; frontispiece

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Object Type: print; frontispiece
Museum number: D,3.524
Description: Frontispiece for 'A Catalogue of News and Useful Maps Curious and Entertaining Prints, Books of Architecture, Great Variety of Drawing Books in all the Branches of Penmanship And the best of each Kind'; title on scroll, surrounded by prints and maps. c.1766 Etching and engraving
Producer name: Published by: Robert Sayer
School/style: British
Production date: 1766 (circa)
Production place: Published in: London (England)
Materials: paper
Technique: etching; engraving
Dimensions: Height: 174 millimetres (trimmed); Width: 97 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: Kept with D,3.524-537 in original folder marked: 'Titles &c' Literature: T.Clayton, 'The English Print 1688-1802', New Haven and London, 1997, pp.106.
Location: Not on display
Associated names: Associated with: Robert Morris; Associated with: Anthony van Dyck; Associated with: Gérard Jean Baptiste Scotin II (?); Associated with: Dorothy Mercier (?)
Acquisition name: Donated by: Dorothea, Lady Banks
Previous owner: Previous owner/ex-collection: Sarah Sophia Banks
Acquisition date: 1818
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: D,3.524

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