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A perspective view of Twickenham Vüe du village de Twickenham
Title
A perspective view of Twickenham [graphic] = Vüe du village de Twickenham / A. Heckell delint. ; E. Rooker sculp.
Publication
London : Printed for John Bowles in Cornhil [sic], & Carington Bowles in St. Pauls Church Yard, [not before 1764]
Physical Description
1 print : etching ; plate mark 289 x 454 mm, on sheet 330 x 484 mm
Medium
laid paper.
Notes
Titles from text below image, in English and French.
Reissue of a print originally published in 1749 by John Bowles. See British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1875,0508.1447.
Date of publication based on the separation of John and Carington Bowles's names in imprint statement. See British Museum online catalogue.
"Publish'd according to act of Parliament"--Below image.
No. 19, "William, 2d E. of Strafford (n.c.)," on Edith McKeon Abbott's map: Horace Walpole's Twickenham 1747-1797, in v. 42 of the Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1980.
Summary
"View of Twickenham, looking over the River Thames; the houses on the opposite shore reflected in the water; a barge and rowing boat in foreground"--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state of the same composition.
Variant and related titles
Vüe du village de Twickenham
Format
Images
Language
English; French
Added to Catalog
December 13, 2012
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Etchings - England - London - 1764.
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