<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:title>[Frontispiece to The catalogue of pictures exhibited at Spring Gardens] [graphic]</dc:title><dc:creator>Grignion, Charles, 1721-1810, printmaker</dc:creator><dc:date>published according to act of Parliament May 7 1761.</dc:date><dc:language>eng</dc:language><dc:description>"Frontispiece to the catalogue of the pictures exhibited by the Society of Artists, at their first exhibition in Spring Gardens; Britannia standing in a rocky landscape, filling a watering can from a fountain with lion's head spout and a bust statue of George III in a niche surmounted by a crown, lettered 'Georgius III Rex. MDCCLXI.'; the watering can pours onto three short trees growing in a clump at right, favouring the one with the trunk labelled 'Architecture' and, to a lesser extent, the tree labelled 'Painting'; the tree 'Sculpture', on slightly lower ground, is not in the line of the spray"--British Museum online catalogue</dc:description><dc:description>Title and state from Paulson.</dc:description><dc:description>State without quotation from Juvenal etched below image.</dc:description><dc:description>Sheet trimmed within plate mark.</dc:description><dc:description>Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above print: See Mr. Nichols's book, 3d edit. p. 373.</dc:description><dc:description>On page 188  in volume 2.</dc:description></oai_dc:dc>