The Hall and Staircase, British Museum, from The Microcosm of London or London in Miniature

John Bluck, English, 1791 - 1819
after Augustus Charles Pugin, English, 1762 - 1832
after Thomas Rowlandson, English, 1756 - 1827

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1808

Hand colored etching on wove paper

Plate: 11 3/16 × 9 3/8 in. (28.4 × 23.8 cm)

Sheet: 13 1/4 × 10 9/16 in. (33.6 × 26.8 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Guernsey Center Moore 1904 Memorial Fund

PR.950.61.2

Publisher

Rudolph Ackermann

Geography

Place Made: England, United Kingdom, Europe

Period

19th century

Object Name

Print

Research Area

Print

Not on view

Inscriptions

Inscribed, in plate, upper right margin: Plate 14.; inscribed, in plate, lower left margin: Pugin & Rowlandson del.t [in superscript] & sculp.t [in superscript]; inscribed, in plate, lower right margin: J. Bluck Aqua.t [in superscript]; inscribed, in plate, lower center: THE HALL and STAIR CASE, / BRITISH MUSEUM. / London, Pub. 1 April 1808, at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts 101, Strand.

Provenance

Goodspeed's Book Shop, Boston, Massachusetts; sold to present collection, 1950.

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