A perspective view of Buckingham House in St. James's Park Vüe de la Hostel de Bucingham dans la Parke de St. James / [graphic] =

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Title: A perspective view of Buckingham House in St. James's Park Vüe de la Hostel de Bucingham dans la Parke de St. James / [graphic] =
Alternative Title: Vüe de la Hostel de Bucingham dans la Parke de St. James
Creator: Maurer, J. active 1713-1761, printmaker, artist
Published / Created: publish'd according to act of Parliament, [1753]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: "View of Buckingham House from the park; elegantly dressed figures in foreground."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Titles etched below image, in English and French.
Later state, with imprint burnished from plate. For an earlier state with the imprint "London, Printed for Robt. Sayer facing Fetter Lane End, Fleet Street", see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1880,1113.2393.
Plate reissued by Sayer and Bennett and listed in their 1775 catalogue as part of the series "Twelve perspective views of the principal churches, streets, and squares in the cities of London and Westminster", 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, pages 87, no. 10.
Plate numbered "8" in upper right corner.
Watermark: Charles Ball 1817.
Leaf 39 in an album of views of London and its vicinity.
Pencil annotation below plate line, in a later hand: Old Buckingham Palace.
Provenance: Formerly owned by James Comerford, with his armorial bookplate in the volume. Thorp; July 1937.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 17 x 28.5 cm, on sheet 24 x 39 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English
French