A view of Twickenham [graphic]

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Title: A view of Twickenham [graphic]
Creator: Green, James, 1729-1759, printmaker
Contributor: Müntz, Jean-Henri, 1727-1798, artist.
Published / Created: [not before 1756]
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: "View in Twickenham; two men fishing in river surrounded by reeds in foreground to right; trees and shrubbery on the left; grand houses fronting river running across centre of view."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title engraved below image.
Names of the owners of the represented houses are engraved in lower margin above title: Lord Radnor's; Mr. Hudson's; Mr. Pope's now Sr. Wm. Stanhope's; Lady Ferrers's; Mrs. Backwell's.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Mounted on page 178 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12.
Provenance: Sabin; August 1927. Strawberry Hill sale, viii, 33. London, 1123. Later owned by William Knight.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 41.9 x 57 cm
Language: English

Genre: Pictorial works
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Engravings England London 1756
Etchings England London 1756
Material: etching and engraving ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): Twickenham (London, England)
England
Twickenham.
Subject (Topic): Houses
Subjects: Twickenham (London, England) > Pictorial works
Houses > England > Twickenham
England > London > 1756
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Knight, William, -1847 > Ownership
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership
Curtis, Charles Constable, 1852-1936 > Ownership
Curtis, Edith Fanny Onslow, -1944 > Ownership

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