Picturesque tour of the River Thames , 1828
- Title(s):
- Picturesque tour of the River Thames : illustrated by twenty-four coloured views, a map, and vignettes, from original drawings taken on the spot / by William Westall and Samuel Owen.
- Published/Created:
- London : R. Ackermann, 1828.
- Physical Description:
- iv, [2], 169 p., [26] leaves of plates [(1) folded] : ill., map ; 35 cm.
- Holdings:
- Rare Books and ManuscriptsDA670.T2 P53 1828+ Copy 1 OversizeYale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection[Request]Rare Books and ManuscriptsDA670.T2 P53 1828+ Copy 2 OversizeYale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection[Request]
- Copyright Status:
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Full Orbis Record:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/3591298
- Classification:
- Books
- Notes:
- Aquatints by James Baily, Charles Bentley, J. Fielding, and Richard Gilson Reeve; after Samuel Owen and William Westall. Map engraved by J. & J. Neale.
Printed by L. Harrison, 5, Prince's-Street, Soho.
Originally issued in 6 parts.
Large paper copy.
Tooley, R.V. English books with coloured plates, 1790-1860, 503
Abbey, J.R. Scenery of Great Britain and Ireland in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 435
BAC: British Art Center has two copies. Henley Bridge listed in List of plates of copy 2 but missing in both copies. Copy 1 is the Abbey copy. Bound in half green morocco. All plates in two states: uncolored and colored. Bookplate: Mexborough. Copy 2 is in the original 6 parts, in printed wrappers. Plates are in colored state only. Title page, preface, contents, and list of plates bound in after plates and before text in part 6. Bookplate: W.H. Harding, Madingley. - Subject Terms:
- Ackermann, R. -- Publisher.Bridges -- England.Engraving -- Specimens -- 1828.Harding, W.A. -- Bookplate, Madingley.Harrison, L. -- Printer.Mexborough -- Bookplate.Rivers -- England.Thames River -- Description and travel.Thames Valley (England) -- Description and travel.
- Form/Genre:
- Armorial bookplates (Provenance)
Aquatints -- 1828.
Aquatints -- Hand-colored -- 1828. - Export:
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- Plates: Folding map of the River Thames
- Source of the Thames
- Oxford
- Park Place
- Cullum Court
- Maidenhead Bridge
- Windsor Castle
- Eton College
- Beaumont Lodge
- Staines Bridge
- Hampton House
- Popel's Villa, Twickenham
- Twickenham
- View from Richmond Hill
- Richmond
- St. Margarets, Twickenham
- Sion House
- Suspension bridge, Hammersmith
- Westminster Bridge
- Water Bridge
- Southward Bridge
- The Custom House
- Greenwich Hospital
- Gravesend
- Tilbury Fort
- Sheerness, The Crow Stone.
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