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Select Views of London; with Historical and Descriptive Sketches of Some of the Most Interesting of its Public Buildings

1816
Not on view
Title, [6], pp. 1-159. 76 plates. Images of "past London, with representations of City churches and other topographical features now no longer in existence."

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  • Title: Select Views of London; with Historical and Descriptive Sketches of Some of the Most Interesting of its Public Buildings
  • Author: Written and illustrated by John Buonarotti Papworth (British, Marylebone, Middlesex 1775–1847)
  • Illustrator: Auguste Charles Pugin (British (born France), Paris 1768/69–1832 London)
  • Engraver: Joseph Constantine Stadler (German, active London, 1780–1822)
  • Engraver: J. R. Hamble (British, active ca. 1803–32)
  • Publisher: Rudolph Ackermann, London (British, active 1794–1832)
  • Printer: J. Diggens (London)
  • Date: 1816
  • Medium: Illustrations: hand-colored aquatints
  • Dimensions: 11 x 7 11/16 x 1 5/8 in. (28 x 19.6 x 4.2 cm)
  • Classification: Books
  • Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1952
  • Object Number: 52.519.61
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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