Accession number
PML 140269.11
Creator
Quilley, J. P. (John P.), active 1812-1842, engraver.
Published
[London? : s.n., 183--?].
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Unlettered mezzotint; title and engraver supplied from description of the British Museum copy.
Library's copy bound in as folio 11 of a volume of prints by and after Bonington (see Bonington album PML 140269), with the title Beautiful Venice inscribed in pencil below the image.
Library's copy bound in as folio 11 of a volume of prints by and after Bonington (see Bonington album PML 140269), with the title Beautiful Venice inscribed in pencil below the image.
Description
1 print : mezzotint ; image: 258 x 210 mm; plate mark: 420 x 304mm; sheet: 539 x 366 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a a balcony with a woman leaning against a standing man, their heads together, accompanied by a page seen from behind kneeling on a stool, resting his arm on the balustrade, all three in seventeenth century costume; St Mark's Campanile is visible beyond at left; print is after the watercolour by Bonington known as 'On the balcony, Venice' and similar in composition to various watercolor and oil paintings by R.P. Bonington variously known as 'Venetians,' 'Venetian balcony,' 'Venetian scene,' etc.
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