The inside of Kings College Chapel, Cambridge Perspective interieure de la Chapelle du College du Roi a Cambridge. [graphic] =

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Description

Title
The inside of Kings College Chapel, Cambridge Perspective interieure de la Chapelle du College du Roi a Cambridge. [graphic] =
Alternative Title
Perspective interieure de la Chapelle du College du Roi a Cambridge
Contributor
Canaletto, 1697-1768, artist.
Published / Created
[not before 1746]
Publication Place
London?
Publisher
publisher not identified
Description
Titles in English and French etched below image.
Date based on time period (1746-1755) when Canaletto worked in England and produced the original painting.
Text below English title: N.B. This building is esteem'd the most perfect and finest piece of Gothic architecture now remaining in Europe.
Text below French title: Cet edifice est regardé comme le plus beau monument d'architecture gothique qui soit en Europe.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Mounted on page 24 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of Horace Walpole's: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.
Provenance
Spencer, ex dono Annie Burr Lewis; June 1933. Sotheby's 14 July 1924 (Miscellaneous sale), lot 183 to Spencer. Formerly owned by Kirgate's friend William Bawtree (1744-1824) engraver.
Extent
1 print : sheet 46.4 x 35 cm
Language
English
French

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
Folio 33 30 Copy 4

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Pictorial works
Etchings England London 1746
Engravings England London 1746
Material
etching and engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type
still image
Subject (Geographic)
Cambridge (England)
Subject (Name)
King's College (University of Cambridge). Chapel.
Subject (Topic)
Chapels
Interiors
Subjects
King's College (University of Cambridge). Chapel
Cambridge (England) > Pictorial works
Chapels
Interiors
England > London > 1746
Bawtree, William, 1744-1824 > Ownership

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
12683071
Object ID (OID)
16193373

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