Kings Bench Prison [graphic]

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Title: Kings Bench Prison [graphic]
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Contributor: Pugin, Augustus, 1762-1832, artist.
Stadler, Joseph Constantine, printmaker.
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher.
Published / Created: [1 December 1808]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pub. 1st Decr. 1808 at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Abstract: "View looking across the prison yard, in St George's Fields; men and women sitting and strolling across right side of yard, the left side only partly in view showing men playing with rackets; wells surrounded by iron railings in centre of yard separating two sides, a long table in left foreground."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Plate numbered in upper right, above image: No. 46.
Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 2, opposite page 161.
1 print : aquatint and etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 23.8 x 28.4 cm, on sheet 26.8 x 34.1 cm.
Provenance: Acquisitions information unknown.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 23.9 x 29 cm, on sheet 26.6 x 33 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Quarto 646 808 M58 v.2
Collection Title: V. 2 Microcosm of London.
Collection Date: [London] : R. Ackermann's repository of arts, no. 101 Strand, [1808-10]

Genre: Book illustrations
Aquatints England London 1808
Etchings England London 1808
Material: aquatint and etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): England
London.
Subject (Name): King's Bench Prison (London, England),
Subject (Topic): Prisons
Courtyards
Subjects: King's Bench Prison (London, England)
Prisons > England > London
Courtyards
England > London > 1808

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