"View looking across Grosvenor Square with the oval shaped planted area with equestrian statue in the centre; a carriage, sedan chair and elegantly dressed figures in foreground."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Perspective view of Grosvenor Square and Vüe de la Place de Grosvenor
Description:
Titles etched below image, in English and French.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer at the Golden Buck facing Fetter Lane End, Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
London (England) and Grosvenor Square (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Plazas, Row houses, Equestrian statues, Carriages & coaches, and Sedan chairs
Page 155. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
View on George Street, looking towards the square, St. George's Church on the right with large Corinthian portico, fat farmer driving sheep in street at center, sedan chair to right
Alternative Title:
View of Saint Georges Church, Hanover Square, from Conduit Street, London and Vuë de l'Eglise de Saint George dans le Carré de Hanover, prés du Côté Rue Conduit à Londres
Description:
Titles engraved below image, in English and French.
Publisher:
Printed for T. Jefferys, the corner of St. Martins Lane, Charing Cross
Subject (Geographic):
England, London, London (England), and London.
Subject (Name):
St. George's Church (Westminster, London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Church buildings, Plazas, Churches, City & town life, Sedan chairs, and Herders
"From the bustle and life visible on all sides it would seem that the period is fair-time, when the rustics and agricultural population of the vicinity in general flock into the town, holiday-making. A travelling mountebank has established his theatre...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. 6 March 1800 at R. Ackermann's Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Quacks and quackery, Teeth, Extraction, Jews, City & town life, Plazas, Medicine shows, Audiences, Crowds, Peddlers, and Butchers
Romney, R., active approximately 1795-, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 May 1795]
Call Number:
646 802 M243 v.4 pt.1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"In a square, horses in the foreground pulling the conspirators to a raised platform in the left middle ground for the execution, a number of spectators watching the event."--British Museum online catalogue
"Brougham, in wig and gown, stands in Old Square, Lincolns Inn, the roof of the Hall, which forms a background, being so inscribed; houses are on the right. He carries on his head, which is in profile to the right, a tray, inscribed London College; th...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 1825. by G. Humphrey, 24 St. James's Street
Subject (Name):
Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868, Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838, St. Albans, Harriot Mellon, Duchess of, 1777?-1837, St. Albans, William Beauclerk, Duke of, 1801-1849, Lincoln's Inn (London, England),, and University College, London.
Subject (Topic):
Plazas, Head-carrying, Building models, Toys, Puppets, Books, Bags, and Ceremonial maces
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd 20th March 1773, New Bond Street No. 134.
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Page 89. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire contrasting British and Continental customs: a portly Briton bows to an elegant French or Italian man with a long queue apparently in a piazza."--British Museum online catalogue
