A scene in Covent Garden
Date
1736
Creator
Isaac Basire (1704 - 1768, British) , Engraver
Object type
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Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 145mm
width (print): 90mm
width (print): 90mm
Subject
Description
View in Covent Garden, with a woman handing a letter, or note, to the first of two gentlemen; the second man, behind, averting his eyes and gesturing with one open hand. There is a small dog by the woman’s feet; behind, the Covent Garden sundial.
Plate from a grangerized copy of A history of the Royal Society, with memoirs of the Presidents…by Charles Richard Weld (London, John W. Parker, 1848). In this edition, the original two volumes were extended to eight volumes with the addition of extra-illustrations and documents, by Alexander Meyrick Broadley.
The engraving appears at p.20, as Weld’s text relates how an attempt was made to establish a scientific institution in the reign of Charles I, known as ‘’Minerva’s Museum’, with a licence declaring that ‘the College shall be erected at Covent Garden, in the parish of St.Martin’s-in-the-Fields’. The print was originally a frontispiece to The lying lover: or the ladies friendship, by Richard Steele (London, Henry Lintot, 1736).
Inscribed below: ‘I. Basire Sculp.’
Plate from a grangerized copy of A history of the Royal Society, with memoirs of the Presidents…by Charles Richard Weld (London, John W. Parker, 1848). In this edition, the original two volumes were extended to eight volumes with the addition of extra-illustrations and documents, by Alexander Meyrick Broadley.
The engraving appears at p.20, as Weld’s text relates how an attempt was made to establish a scientific institution in the reign of Charles I, known as ‘’Minerva’s Museum’, with a licence declaring that ‘the College shall be erected at Covent Garden, in the parish of St.Martin’s-in-the-Fields’. The print was originally a frontispiece to The lying lover: or the ladies friendship, by Richard Steele (London, Henry Lintot, 1736).
Inscribed below: ‘I. Basire Sculp.’
Related fellows
Charles Richard Weld (1813 - 1869, British) , Author
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