BEIN 1977 Folio 185: Restricted. Permission of curator needed for use. Accompanied by facsimiles of plates, housed separately and classed as 1977 Folio 185 2; some original plates removed from volume and replaced with facsimiles; original plates which...
Subject (Geographic):
Rome., Rome, and Campo Marzio (Rome, Italy)
Subject (Topic):
Architecture, Antiquities, and Description and travel
The first two or three paragraphs of the preface, and possibly the chapter "Of the art of laying out gardens among the Chinese" were written by Samuel Johnson. Cf. Fleeman.
Publisher:
Published for the author, and sold by him next door to Tom's Coffee-house, Russel-Street, Convent-Garden; also by Mess. Dodsley, in Pall Mall; Mess. Wilson and Durham; Mr. A. Millar, in the Strand, and Mr. R. Willock, in Cornhill
Copy of the frontispiece to Joshua Kirby's 'Perspective of Architecture' (1761); landscape, with river, domed temple and city, in foreground the upper part of a column, its capital bearing emblems of the Prince of Wales, a cupid with a book, a paper w...
Alternative Title:
Frontispiece to Kirby's Perspective of architecture
Description:
Paulson's title for the print on which this is based: Frontispiece to Kirby's Perspective of architecture