Portland, Illustration for Copper Plate Magazine
Maker
(artist)
1750-1818
(engraver)
1776-1802
(publisher)
1776-1802
1750-1818
(engraver)
1776-1802
(publisher)
1776-1802
Title
Portland, Illustration for Copper Plate Magazine
Date of Production
1796
Medium
engraving and etching
printed in black
printed in black
Dimensions
Height: 12.8 cm
Width: 17.1 cm
Width: 17.1 cm
Accession Number
G.1990.WL.7837
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
Keywords
Provenance
Information not yet known or updated
Inscriptions
Inscription: recto: lower left: Engraved by by J Walker from an Original Drawing by J. Nixon Esq.r
Inscription: recto: lower right: Publish'd June 1: 1796 by J. Walker No. 16, Rosomans Street, London.
Inscription: recto: lower centre: PORTLAND.
Inscription: recto: upper right: Pl.106.Vol:III.
recto: upper right, on mount, stamped: WITT / LIBRARY
recto: lower centre, glued on mount: PORTLAND. / Numb. LIII PLATE CVI. / THIS place, formerly an island, but now only a peninsula, forming part of the county of Dorsetshire, stands a league from the main land of Britain, yet it is almost joined by a prodigious riff of beach, ending as it were at that inlet of water, turns away west, and runs parallel with the shore quite to Abbotsbury, a town about seven miles beyond Weymouth.
Inscription: recto: lower right: Publish'd June 1: 1796 by J. Walker No. 16, Rosomans Street, London.
Inscription: recto: lower centre: PORTLAND.
Inscription: recto: upper right: Pl.106.Vol:III.
recto: upper right, on mount, stamped: WITT / LIBRARY
recto: lower centre, glued on mount: PORTLAND. / Numb. LIII PLATE CVI. / THIS place, formerly an island, but now only a peninsula, forming part of the county of Dorsetshire, stands a league from the main land of Britain, yet it is almost joined by a prodigious riff of beach, ending as it were at that inlet of water, turns away west, and runs parallel with the shore quite to Abbotsbury, a town about seven miles beyond Weymouth.
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