"View looking across the square towards the King's Mews, George II and his Company viewing the horses."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Vüe de Ecuries du Roy a Charing Cross
Description:
Titles etched below image, in English and French., Later state; remnants of burnished imprint visible at bottom of plate., Plate reissued by Sayer and Bennett and listed in their 1775 catalogue as part of the series "Twelve perspective views of the principal churches, streets, and squares in the cities of London and Westminster", in the section on "Sets of small prints"; see: Sayer and Bennett's enlarged catalogue of new and valuable prints. London : [Sayer and Bennett], 1775, pages 87, no. 10., Plate numbered "6" in upper right corner., Watermark: Charles Ball 1817., Leaf 37 in an album of views of London and its vicinity., and Pencil annotation below plate line, in a later hand: This rare plate is copied in Fairholt's "Haunted London".
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), England, and London.
Subject (Name):
George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760,
Subject (Topic):
Stables, Horses, Horseback riding, Carriages & coaches, and Plazas
"View in the King's Mews; horses stabled beyond large arches on the right, in foreground to the left a man saddles up a horse, as two men and a boy in unifrom stand by; at far end a man forks hay bales."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered in upper right, above image: No. 47., and Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 2, opposite page 162.
Publisher:
Pub. 1st Decr. 1808 at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
