Print sandby thomas (1 Ergebnisse)

Hand-coloured etching; trimmed within platemark, laid on to later paper, a few tears & creases with sl. cracking to image in places. 39 x 53cm. A good-plus copy. BM 1977, U.709. Etched by Edward Rooker after the original by Thomas Sandby. Covent Garden seen from the south-east side of the colonnade, with figures including a woman selling goods on the right, a pair of shoe-shiners, a beggar, a gentleman and lady walking, a boy with a hoop and two boys playing marbles in the foreground to left; others leaning on wooden railings and selling goods from large baskets in the middle of the square. A similar print was republished after a fire destroyed much of the south-east corner of the Piazza in 1769. PLEASE NOTE: For customers within the UK this item is subject to VAT at 20%. …