Panorama, Leicester-Square [graphic] : (by Royal Patent) is open every day (Sundays excepted) from ten till seven : admittance one shilling : the present subject is a view of the Grand Fleet, moored at Spithead, being the Russian armament in 1791, taken from the centre, together with Portsmouth, the Isle of Wight, and entire surrounding objects / the painting, by Mr. Barker, contains above ten thousand square feet, and every object appears as large as reality, by effect of the pencil only.
Published / Created:
[London] : [s.n.], [1793]
Physical Description:
1 print : engraving ; 27.5 x 45 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Related Content:
View a selection of digital images in the Yale Center for British Art's online catalogue
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/orbis:9877908
Classification:
Prints
Notes:
Caption continues: "Diameter of the building is ninety feet. Picture painted in oil in four months. Ships of the line are thirty-six, and are true portraits. The centre frigate, where company are supposed to stand, is the Iphigenia. The panorama, no. 28, Castle-Street, Leicester-Square, being a view of London and Westminster, continues open as usual--admittance one shilling."
Exhibition History:
Spreading Canvas - Eighteenth - Century British Marine Painting (Yale Center for British Art, 2016-09-09 - 2016-12-04)
Subject Terms:
Barker, Robert, 1739–1806. | Great Britain. Royal Navy -- History. | Panorama (Leicester Square, London, England) | Panoramas -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800. | Warships -- British -- 1793. | Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- Russia.