Foundling Hospital Chapel, 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
1808
Hand colored etching on wove paper
Plate: 9 × 10 15/16 in. (22.8 × 27.8 cm)
Sheet: 10 1/2 × 13 1/4 in. (26.7 × 33.6 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Guernsey Center Moore 1904 Memorial Fund
PR.950.61.3
Publisher
Rudolph Ackermann
Geography
Place Made: England, United Kingdom, Europe
Period
19th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, in plate, upper right margin: No. 37; 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: FOUNDLING HOSPITAL, / THE CHAPEL. / London, Pub. 1st Oct.r 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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