"View looking down Fenchurch Street; the hall on the right with pediment at top above four Ionic pillasters, shop signs jutting out from buildings on the left, carts and carriages in street."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Vü de la Halle des Marchands de Fer dans Fenchurch Street
Description:
Titles etched below image, in English and French., Probably a later state, with slight alteration to the plate numbering format. For a state with "No. 6" in upper right corner, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 11875,0710.4909., Date range for publication from the British Museum online catalogue., "The design copied from a print published at mid-century by John Bowles"--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue., Plate reissued by Sayer and Bennett and listed in their 1775 catalogue as part of the series "Twelve views of the city of London and public buildings therein, accurately engraved from the originals taken on the spot", in the section on "Sets of small prints"; see: Sayer and Bennett's enlarged catalogue of new and valuable prints. London : [Sayer and Bennett], 1775, page 86, no. 8., Plate numbered "6" in upper right corner., and Leaf 25 in an album of views of London and its vicinity.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, map & printseller, at the Golden Buck near Serjeants Inn, Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), England, and London.
Subject (Name):
Worshipful Company of Ironmongers (London, England)
Titles engraved below image, in English and French., Later state of a plate published by Henry Overton. Cf. Yale Center for British Art, accession no.: B1977.14.15258., Date of publication inferred from publisher's statement; Laurie & Whittle took over the business of Robert Sayer in 1794. See British Museum online catalogue., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with complete loss of imprint from bottom edge and partial loss of plate number from upper right. Missing text and numbering supplied from impression at the Yale Center for British Art, accession no.: B1977.14.15259., Plate numbered "83" in upper right corner., Folded to 24.5 x 38.3 cm., and Leaf 58 in an album of views of London and its vicinity.
Publisher:
Published by Laurie & Whittle, 53, Fleet Street, London