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Covent Garden Market Westminster Election
Title
Covent Garden Market [graphic] : Westminster Election / Pugin & Rowlandson delt. et sculpt. ; Bluck aquat.
Publication
London : Pub. 1 July 1808 at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand, [1 July 1808]
Physical Description
1 print : aquatint and etching ; plate mark 23 x 29 cm, on sheet 27.4 x 36 cm
Medium
wove paper
Notes
Title etched below image.
Plate numbered in upper right, above image: Plate 26.
Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 1, opposite page 209.
Summary
"View of the election in Covent Garden Market, temporary structure erected outside St. Paul's Church, a man on a platform from the stalls addresses the large crowd, towards the edge the crowd becomes more bawdy, with people singing and playing music."--British Museum online catalogue.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 12, 2012
References
Adams, B. London illustrated 1604-1850, pages 223-228
Abbey, J.R. Scenery of Great Britain and Ireland in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, pages 136-140
Subjects
Genre/Form
Views.
Book illustrations.
Etchings - England - London - 1808.
Aquatints - England - London - 1808.
Watermarks (Paper) - J. Whatman - 1806.
Watermarks (Paper) - J. Whatman.
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