Object Number 1969.2810

Object Name

Print (Etching)

Title

A View of the Garden &c. at Carlton House in Pall Mall, a Palace of Her Royal Highness the Princess Dowager of Wales.

Category

Prints and Maps

Credit Line/Donor

Bequest of Henry Francis du Pont

Creator (Role)

William Woollett (Designer and etcher)
08/15/1735-05/23/1785
Woollett was apprenticed to John Tinney, an engraver in Fleet Street, London, and studied in the St Martin's Lane academy. His first important plate was from the "Niobe" of Richard Wilson, published by Boydell in 1761, which was followed in 1763 by a companion engraving from the "Phaethon" of the same painter. After West he engraved his fine plate of the "Battle of La Hogue" (1781), and the "Death of General Wolfe" (1776), which is usually considered Woollett's masterpiece.

Robert Sayer, John Boydell, Heny Parker & Elizaberth Bakewell, Thomas Bowles, and John Bowles & Son (Publisher and printseller)

Place of Origin

London, London, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Date

1750-1760

Mark or Signature or Inscription or Label

1. Inscription; Lower right; W. Woollett del. et sculp.
2. Inscription; Lower center; Printed for Hen. Parker & Eliz. Bakewell in Cornhill, Rob.\t Sayer at the Golden Buck in Fleet Street, T. Bowles in S,,\t Pauls Church Yard, John Bowles & Son, at the Black Horse in Cornhill, & John Boydell [paper loss] in Cheapside.

Subjects

Genre scene; Landscape; Estate or house view

Materials

Ink; Paper (laid)

Techniques

Etched, Engraved, Line engraved

Dimensions (inches)

15.9 (H) , 22.4 (W) , 14.2 (Image H) , 20.2 (Image W)

Dimensions (centimeters)

40.5 (H) , 56.8 (W) , 14.2 (Image H) , 20.2 (Image W)

Measurement Notes

Overall measurements include paper backing. Trimmed within platemark.

Publisher Summary

Robert Sayer, John Boydell, Heny Parker & Elizaberth Bakewell, Thomas Bowles, and John Bowles & Son

Place of Publication

London, England, United Kingdom

Watermark

Unknown

Object Description

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