A perspective of Westminster Abbey from [the] High Altar to the west end shewing the manner of His Majesties crowning; also the manner of disposing seating and placing several of the persons who came in the proceeding &c. Exactly taken from Sandford / [graphic]

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Lewis Walpole Library > A perspective of Westminster Abbey from [the] High Altar to the west end shewing the manner of His Majesties crowning; also the manner of disposing seating and placing several of the persons who came in the proceeding &c. Exactly taken from Sandford / [graphic]

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Description

Title: A perspective of Westminster Abbey from [the] High Altar to the west end shewing the manner of His Majesties crowning; also the manner of disposing seating and placing several of the persons who came in the proceeding &c. Exactly taken from Sandford / [graphic]
Creator: Bowles, Thomas, -1767, printmaker
Contributor: Sherwin, William, active 1670-1710.
Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794, publisher.
Published / Created: [not before 1766]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed for Robt. Sayer, at No. 53 in Fleet Street
Description: Title from text at top of plate.
Date of publication based on printseller's street address. See British Museum online catalogue.
Print based on an illustration by William Sherwin to Francis Sandford's The history of the coronation of the Most High, Most Mighty, and Most Excellent Monarch, James II (London, 1687). See British Museum online catalogue.
Two images on one plate, separated by four columns of text serving as a key to the upper image; upper image shows the coronation, lower image shows the implements used for the coronation.
Sheet numbered "232" in a contemporary hand in upper right corner.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 389 x 236 mm, on sheet 436 x 271 mm
Language: English

Collection Information

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Topos L847 no. 123+

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre: Etchings England London 1766
Annotations (Provenance) 18th century
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): England
London.
England.
Subject (Name): James II, King of England, 1633-1701.
Westminster Abbey,
Subject (Topic): Interiors
Abbeys
Coronations
Subjects: James II, King of England, 1633-1701
Westminster Abbey
Interiors
Abbeys > England > London
Coronations > England
England > London > 1766
18th century

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Identifiers

Orbis Record: 11163190
Object ID (OID): 16035334