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Title-page to Virtue's Pictures of Beauties of Great Britain

Maker

(artist)
1791-1876

(engraver)
active 1828-1869 (active)

(publisher)
1684-1756

Title

Title-page to Virtue's Pictures of Beauties of Great Britain

Date of Production

1834

Medium

Engraving

Dimensions

Height: 27 cm
Width: 19 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.4278

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Library, transfer, 1990

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

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Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Inscriptions

Inscription: Recto: upper centre image, printed: VIRTUE'S / PICTURESQUE BEAUTIES / OF / Great Britain; / Series of Views, / By the Most Approved Artists. / Taken expressly for this Work. / MESS.RS G. SHEPHERD, H. GASTINEAU, & c. & c. / Comprising the Principal / Cities [ampersand] Towns; Public Edifices & Dock Yards; / Seats of the Nobility and Gentry; / HOSPITALS, CHURCHES, CASTELLATED & MONASTIC RUINS, & c. / Accompanied by / Historical & Biographical Index

Inscription: Recto: lower margin, printed: Drawn by H. Gastineau Engraved by H. Adlard

Inscription: Recto: lower centre right margin, printed: GREENWICH HOSPITAL. / LONDON, / Published by G. Virtue, Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row. / Entered at Stationers Hall.

Stamp: Recto: lower right margin, stamped: M

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