A view from Constitution Hill anno 1735 / [graphic]

Description

Title: A view from Constitution Hill anno 1735 / [graphic]
Creator: Scott, Edmund, approximately 1746-1810, printmaker
Contributor: Godfrey, Richard Bernard, approximately 1728-, publisher.
Published / Created: [1 June 1779]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published 1st June 1779 by Richd. Godfrey, No. 120 Long Acre
Abstract: "View in Green Park as it appeared in 1735, looking towards Westminster Abbey, only one of its towers completed, with Buckingham House before it became a royal residence at mid-distance on the right; a cow being milked in foreground to right."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Plate from: The Antiquarian repertory. London : Printed for the proprietors and sold by F. Blyth [etc.], 1775-1784, v. 3.
Mounted to 24 x 37 cm.
Leaf 63 in an album of views of London and its vicinity.
Pencil annotation on mounting sheet, in a later hand: Before the towers of West. Abbey were finished.
Provenance: Formerly owned by James Comerford, with his armorial bookplate in the volume. Thorp; July 1937.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 16.9 x 21.7 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English