A view taken of the Thames from Milbank, towards Chelsea and Battersea [graphic].

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Title: A view taken of the Thames from Milbank, towards Chelsea and Battersea [graphic].
Creator: O'Neale, Jefferyes Hamett, -1801, artist
Published / Created: [not before 1789]
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: "Millbank, looking westwards towards Chelsea; a man leads an ass laden with vegetables along a road beside the river between trees about to cross a stream in the right foreground, a woman with a mop on her shoulder follows him; two men fish from a boat; on the far side of the river, in Lambeth, a windmill; in the distance the recently opened Battersea Bridge."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state of the same composition
Description: Title from caption below image.
Artist attribution from British Museum online catalogue.
Publication date based on that of earlier state.
Later state, with publication line burnished from plate, of a print published in 1789 by R. Sayer. See British Museum online catalogue.
Plate numbered "5" in upper right corner.
Provenance: Suckling; January 1941.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 25.1 x 36 cm, on sheet 30.8 x 44 cm
Language: English

Genre: Views
Landscape prints
Mezzotints England London 1789
Etchings England London 1789
Material: mezzotint and etching ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): England
London.
Subject (Topic): Rivers
Subjects: Rivers > England > London
England > London > 1789

Access: Public
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