The Royal Palace of Windsor Le Palais Royale de Windsor. [graphic] =

Description

Title: The Royal Palace of Windsor Le Palais Royale de Windsor. [graphic] =
Alternative Title: Palais Royale de Windsor
Contributor: Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794, publisher.
Published / Created: [not before 1747]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed for Robt. Sayer, map & printseller, at the Golden Buck near Serjeants Inn, Fleet Street
Abstract: View of Windsor Castle from across the river Thames, with boats on the water and two swans to the left. Three men with fishing poles and two women are seen on the bank in the foreground; a tree stands on the right
Description: Titles etched below image, in English and French.
Date of publication based on Robert Sayer's earliest year of activity. The address "near Sergeants Inn, Fleet Street" only appears on his very early prints; see British Museum online catalogue.
Plate reissued by Sayer and Bennett and listed in their 1775 catalogue as part of the series "Twelve views of his Majesty's palaces and royal hospitals, and other public buildings in London, &c.", in the section on "Sets of small prints"; see: Sayer and Bennett's enlarged catalogue of new and valuable prints. London : [Sayer and Bennett], 1775, page 87, no. 9.
Imperfect; plate number erased from upper right corner of sheet. Missing number supplied from impression in the Victoria and Albert Museum, accession no.: 29635:13.
Plate numbered "8" in upper right corner.
Watermark: 1804.
Leaf 19 in an album of views of London and its vicinity.
Provenance: Formerly owned by James Comerford, with his armorial bookplate in the volume. Thorp; July 1937.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 17.4 x 27.6 cm, on sheet 24 x 39 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English
French