Ciuitatis Westmonasteriensis pars [graphic]

Description

Title: Ciuitatis Westmonasteriensis pars [graphic]
Creator: Hollar, Wenceslaus, 1607-1677, printmaker
Published / Created: [approximately 1800?]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: "Westminster from the river; view of Westminster abbey taken from mid-stream, with the Parliament on the left the Hall and Westminster stairs in the centre; boats in the foreground."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched at top of plate.
Initial letters of printmaker's name in signature form a monogram.
Restrike (probably retouched) of a print originally published in 1647 as part of a series of eight. See Adams.
Approximate publication date from Adams, who notes that printsellers such as Laurie & Whittle were selling impressions on wove paper of the prints in this series at the turn of the 19th century. Decades earlier, the publishers Sayer and Bennett had offered impressions "on very good paper" in their 1775 catalogue, writing that the original plates had been "carefully cleaned" (that is, the worn lines had likely been re-engraved).
Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with some loss of image from right and left sides.
Mounted to 20.5 x 27.2 cm.
Mounted before page 175 in volume 4 part 1 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Malcolm, J.P. Londinium redivivum, or, An antient history and modern description of London.
Provenance: Engraved bookplate of Charles E.H. Chadwick Healey in each volume; sold at his sale, Hodgson Rooms, 1942. Also with the bookplate: Harry Lawrence Bradfer Lawrence F.S.A. in volume 2. Marlborough Rare Books; May 2024.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 13.9 x 26.1 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Edition: [Restrike].
Language: English