Yale Center for British Art

Title:

Cycloramique view of Weymouth Bay [graphic].

Published / Created:

Weymouth : E. Groves, Publisher, 11, St. Mary Str., [ca. 1820]

Physical Description:

1 print on 12 joined sheets : hand-colored aquatint ; sheets end-to-end 18 x 546 cm, accordion folded to 18 x 23 cm

Holdings:

Rare Books and Manuscripts
DA690.W565 C93 1820
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:

Classification:

Prints

Notes:

Title from publisher's printed covers.

Displays scene from the Bill of Portland to Lulworth Cove.

Panorama includes place names along the bottom edge.

Covers are lithographed, on green paper. The front cover depicts a device (titled "Cyclorama of Weymouth Bay") presumably used to view a version of this panorama (or others) in scroll form. Rear cover bears publisher's advertisement.

Hyde, R. Gilded scenes and shining prospects. New Haven, Ct. : Yale Center for British Art, 1985, 91

Abbey, J.R. Life in England in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 479

BAC: British Art Center copy is the Abbey copy. In publisher's original quarter maroon cloth and green printed boards.With original silk tie.

Subject Terms:

Weymouth (Dorset, England) -- Pictorial works. | Weymouth (Dorset, England) -- Buildings, structures, etc. | Weymouth -- Imprints -- Specimens -- 1820. | Groves, E. -- Publisher.

Form/Genre:

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