View of the stairs at York Buildings in the Strand, with the water works & a distant prospect of Westminster Bridge, &c. [graphic].

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Title: View of the stairs at York Buildings in the Strand, with the water works & a distant prospect of Westminster Bridge, &c. [graphic].
Published / Created: [approximately 1740]
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: "View of a promenade lined with trees next to the River Thames, looking towards the York Buildings water-works and the tower of the old steam engine on the right, with the York Water Gate in front; on the left is the river with Westminster Bridge in the distance."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1880,1113.1366.
Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark and mutilated in lower left corner, resulting in slight loss of title. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum.
Mounted to 24 x 35 cm.
Leaf 61 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 : sheet 17.3 x 27 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English