To the King's most-excellent Majesty The attention and encouragement bestowed by your Majesty on all the efforts of the fine arts induced me to hope for and solicit Your Majesty's patronage to this edition of Compete history of England / [graphic]

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Title: To the King's most-excellent Majesty The attention and encouragement bestowed by your Majesty on all the efforts of the fine arts induced me to hope for and solicit Your Majesty's patronage to this edition of Compete history of England / [graphic]
Creator: Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727-1815, printmaker
Contributor: Cipriani, Giovanni Battista, 1727-1785.
Tresham, Henry, 1749?-1814.
Tomkins, Peltro William, 1759-1840.
Bowyer, Robert, 1758-1834.
Published / Created: April 1793.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published as the Act directs, by R. Bowyer, at the Historic Gallery, Pall Mall
Abstract: "Dedication sheet to George III; five allegorical female figures, three standing to left, one casting incense on a fire, before a plaque with a bust portrait of the king, while a triton sits in front of it, another female holding a scroll raises a crown above the king's head and another female sits writing history to right; after Tresham."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from similar print at British Museum, Cf. museum registration no. 1858,1009.251.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Lettered below image: "To the King's most Excellent Majesty. / The attention and encouragement bestowed by your Majesty on all the efforts of the Fine Arts induced me to hope for and solicit your Majesty's patronage to this edition of a Complete History of England, illustrated by historic prints, and gratefully acknowledge the condescending goodness with which my humble request has been granted. The sanction of your majesty is a pledge of general approbation and dissipates those apprehensions, which intimidate and weaken the first measures of great and hazardous undertakings. / I have the honour to be, may it please your Majesty, Your Majesty's most obliged and devoted servant, Robert Bowyer."
On page numbered 55 in an album of 116 prints: [Bartolozzi and his pupils].
Provenance: Purchased by W.S. Lewis from Holland Brothers, Birmingham; March 1958.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 33.4 x 21.9 cm
Edition: [4th state].
Language: English

Collection Information

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 75 B28 804

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre: Engravings England London
Annotations (Provenance) 18th century
Material: engraving ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > London
18th century

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Identifiers

Orbis Record: 11713201
Object ID (OID): 16876293