A view of the Doge's Palace at Venice with the grand landing place before it the prison on the right hand, the custom house & entrance of the Grand Canal in front / [graphic]

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Description

Title: A view of the Doge's Palace at Venice with the grand landing place before it the prison on the right hand, the custom house & entrance of the Grand Canal in front / [graphic]
Creator: Parr, Nathaniel, -1751, printmaker
Contributor: Marieschi, Michele, 1710-1743, artist.
Published / Created: [not after 1751]
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Description: Title etched below image.
Date of publication based on printmaker's death date.
Plate numbered "I" in upper right corner.
Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with partial loss of plate number and possible loss of imprint statement.
Mounted on page 178 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 29 x 39 cm
Language: English

Collection Information

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 33 30 Copy 4

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre: Pictorial works
Early works to 1800
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Etchings England London 1751
Material: etching with engraving ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): Venice (Italy)
Subject (Topic): Palazzo ducale (Venice, Italy)
Castles & palaces
Subjects: Venice (Italy) > Pictorial works > Early works to 1800
Palazzo ducale (Venice, Italy) > Pictorial works
Castles & palaces
England > London > 1751
Bawtree, William, 1744-1824 > Ownership

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Identifiers

Orbis Record: 12816725
Object ID (OID): 16193521