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Cowes Castle Isle of Wight

Maker

(artist)
1725-1809

(engraver)
1758-ca. 1810 (Life dates)

(publisher)
ca. 1737-1790 (Life dates)

Title

Cowes Castle Isle of Wight

Date of Production

1.4.1778

Medium

etching, engraving

Dimensions

Height: 20.5 cm
Width: 27.5 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.5573.96

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Library, transfer, 1990

Credit

Courtauld Gallery, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords











Provenance

previous owner: Witt, Robert Clermont (Sir)

Inscriptions

Inscription: recto: lower left, artist: P. Sandby R. A. pinxt.

Inscription: recto: lower right, engraver: Scott sculpt.

Inscription: recto: lower centre, title, publisher, date: COWES CASTLE ISLE OF WIGHT. / Published as the Act directs, by G. Kearsly, No. 46, Fleet Street, April 1, 1780.

Inscription: recto: upper right corner, plate number: 17.

Stamp: recto: stamped in black, upper right: WITT LIBRARY.

Inscription: verso: handwritten in pencil: C1 Neg. L8/11/F(32a).

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