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Augustus Charles Pugin

Bow Street Office

Description

Maker

Augustus Charles Pugin (British, 1762-1832)
Thomas Rowlandson (British, 1756-1827), designer
Rudolph Ackermann (1764-1834), publisher

Title

Bow Street Office

Year

Published 1808

Medium

  • etching,
  • aquatint,
  • hand coloring

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

  • etching,
  • aquatint,
  • hand coloring

Materials

aquatint, hand coloring

Supports

  • medium weight cream wove paper

Dimensions

23.6 x 27.6 cm (9 5/16 x 10 7/8 inches) (plate)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Original--Recto:in pencil inscribed, LL:1.50Verso:in pencil inscribed UL:10064 ; inscribed, LL:No 1 - in/ bottom(bottom underlined) hinge/ 2½ all around + bottom ; in black pen inscribed, UR:13.165b/ ?(done in pencil)In Plate--Numbered, UR:Plate II. ; inscribed, LL:Rowlandson & Pugin, del.t et sculp.t ; inscribed, LR:Hill, aqua.t ; titled, LC:BOW STREET OFFICE./ London Pub.l. March 1808. at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts 101. Strand.

Marks: Stamped in brown ink on verso:R.I.S.D./ MUSEUM/ OF ARTsurounded byPROVIDENCE/ RHODE ISLANDall inscribed in a circle.

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Bequest of Isaac C. Bates

Object Number

13.1435B

Type

  • Prints

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Augustus Charles Pugin (British, 1762-1832)
Thomas Rowlandson (British, 1756-1827), designer
Rudolph Ackermann (1764-1834), publisher
Bow Street Office, Published 1808
etching; aquatint; hand coloring
23.6 x 27.6 cm (9 5/16 x 10 7/8 inches) (plate)
Bequest of Isaac C. Bates 13.1435B

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