Frontispiece to the Perspective of architecture [graphic]

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Description

Title
Frontispiece to the Perspective of architecture [graphic]
Alternative Title
Frontispiece to Kirby's Perspective of architecture
Creator
Grignion, Charles, 1721-1810, printmaker
Contributor
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
Published / Created
published March 1798.
Publication Place
London
Publisher
publisher not identified
Abstract

Copy of the frontispiece to Joshua Kirby's 'Perspective of Architecture' (1761); landscape, with river, domed temple and city, in foreground the upper part of a column, its capital bearing emblems of the Prince of Wales, a cupid with a book, a paper with geometrical figures struck by a ray from the rising sun

Description
Paulson's title for the print on which this is based: Frontispiece to Kirby's Perspective of architecture
"Page 179"--Top right.
Original drawing in the British Museum.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Copy of: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 235.
On page 185 in volume 2.
Provenance
George Steevens bequeathed this collection to William Windham (1750-1810). At Windham's death, the collection was put up for sale on 20 July 1810 and was bought in by Mrs. Windham at 292 guineas; by descent through the Windham family; Sotheby's, 17 February 1919 to Dyson Perrins for £400; Sotheby's sale including Property of the Late C.W. Dyson Perrins, Esq., 11 June 1959, lot 100 purchased by Maggs Bros. for W.S. Lewis for £1300.
Extent
1 print : sheet 10 x 14 cm
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
Folio 75 H67 800 v.2 (Oversize)

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Frontispieces
Etchings England London 1798
Material
etching ; and wove paper.
Resource Type
still image
Subject (Topic)
Architecture
Cupids
Subjects
Architecture
Cupids
England > London > 1798
Steevens, George, 1736-1800 > Ownership
Perrins, Charles William Dyson, 1864-1958 > Ownership

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Rights
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Identifiers

Catalog Record
12820768
Object ID (OID)
16194148

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