Society for the Encouragement of Arts, 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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1809

Hand colored etching on wove paper

Plate: 9 1/8 × 10 13/16 in. (23.2 × 27.5 cm)

Sheet: 10 9/16 × 13 3/16 in. (26.9 × 33.5 cm)

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

PR.950.61.4

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 71; inscribed, in plate, lower left margin: Pugin & Rowlandson del.t [t in superscript] & sculp.t [t in superscript]; inscribed, in plate, lower right margin: J. Bluck, aqua.t [t in superscript]; inscribed, in plate, lower center: SOCIETY for the ENCOURAGEMENT OF ARTS, &c, / ADELPHI / London, Pub. July 1st 1809 at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts 101, Strand; inscribed, in graphite, lower right: 7.50 [50 in superscript]

Provenance

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

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