Yale Center for British Art

Title:

Authoramique view of Weymouth [graphic].

Published / Created:

Weymouth : Published at E. Groves's Fancy Repository and Library, 11 St. Mary Str., [ca. 1820]

Physical Description:

1 print on 6 joined sheets : hand-colored etching ; sheets end-to-end 10 x 277 cm, accordion folded to 10 x 15 cm

Holdings:

Rare Books and Manuscripts
DA690.W565 A98 1820
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:

Classification:

Prints

Notes:

Title and imprint from publisher's original printed label on front cover.

Issued in a cloth folder.

With publisher's advertisement on back cover: "Cycloramique view of Weymouth Bay. Authorama of Weymouth Town. Map 'en relief of the coast near Weymouth. Environs of Weymouth geologically colored. Weymouth and Melcombe-Regis Guide. Drawings lent to copy. Plain and fancy stationery, perfumery, prints and periodicals. Engraving, printing, book-binding."

Panorama includes place names along the bottom edge.

Hyde, R. Gilded scenes and shining prospects. New Haven, Ct. : Yale Center for British Art, 1985, 90

Abbey, J.R. Life in England in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 478

BAC: British Art Center copy is the Abbey copy. In publisher's original maroon cloth folder, with printed labels on front and back covers; original tie partially intact.

Subject Terms:

Weymouth (Dorset, England) -- Pictorial works. | Weymouth (Dorset, England) -- Buildings, structures, etc. | Weymouth -- Imprints -- Specimens -- 1820. | E. Groves's Fancy Repository and Library -- Publisher.

Form/Genre:

Etchings -- Hand-colored -- 1820. | Panoramas -- England -- Weymouth. | Caricatures. | Accordion fold format (Binding)