A perspective view, or vues d'optique, of the Covent Garden Market, looking towards Inigo Jones's St. Paul's Church, which is situated slightly to the right of center; in the foreground are shown vendors, carriages, pedestrians and other street life. The image is reversed for viewing through the lens of a Zograscope and designed to give the illusion of a deeper perspective, enhanced by the deep vanishing point and bright colour of the print
Alternative Title:
Vue perspective du Covent Garden, Vue du Couvent Garden, and Vue du Convent Garden
Description:
Title etched below image; alternative title etched in reverse above image: Vue du Couvent Garden., Date of publication from dealer's description., and "No. 92"--Upper right, above image.
Publisher:
Chez J. Chereau, rue St. Jacques au desses de la Fontaine St. Severin aux a Colonnes no. 257
"Interior view of the north transept of Westminster Abbey; a group of figures stand with a guide admiring the monuments; a couple stand in left foreground, the man gesturing upwards."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered in upper right, above image: Plate 93., and Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 3, opposite page 229.
Publisher:
Pub. Decr. 1st, 1809, at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Probably a view of a section of St. Martin-in-the-Fields submitted by Sir James Thornhill for the 1720-1721 St. Martin-in-the-Fields project
Description:
Title devised by curator., Questionable attribution to Sir James Thornhill., Formerly housed as part of the SH Contents collection., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
St. Martin-in-the-Fields (Church : Westminster, London, England)
Title supplied by cataloger., Date of printing based date of other similar works in collection., and Bound in a volume of prints: English cathedrals and monuments, numbered '14' in mss. Label on front cover: Prints. For further information consult library staff.
Title supplied by cataloger. Possibly also St. John Baptist in Gloucester., Date of printing based date of other similar works in collection., and Bound in a volume of prints [English cathedrals and monuments]; leaf numbered '13' in mss. Label on front cover: Prints. For further information consult library staff.
A view of a church, probably in Glouchestershire, including the churchyard with gravestones, as scene over a wall with a gate. Outside the wall, two pigs and a saddeld horse feed or drink as a dog sits on the wall looking in.
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Date of printing based on watermark., With another untitled plate on same sheet: [Baptismal font] / drawn and engrav'd by T. Bonnor. [London] : Publish'd according to act of Parliament January 1st, 1782, By Ralph Bigland, Garter principal King of Arms, [1 January 1794?], and Bound in a volume of prints [English cathedrals and monuments]; leaf numbered '8' in mss. Label on front cover: Prints. For further information consult library staff.
