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• Author/Creator:Maurer, John, active 1720-1742, printmaker, artist.
  
• Title:A perspective view of [the] parade in St. James's Park [graphic] : the Treasury, the new buildings for the Horse Guards, and His Majesty going to the House of Lords = Vüe de la parade dans le Parc de St. James : le Treser, le nouveau batiment de Gardes a Cheval, et la procession du Roy allant a la Chambre des Seigneurs / J. Maurer delin. et sculp., London.
  
• Publication:[London] : [W. Innys and J. Richardson, etc.], published according to act of Parliament, 1754, for Stowes Survey.
  
• Physical Description:1 print : etching with engraving ; sheet 25.5 x 42 cm
  

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  • Location:LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating)
    Request for Use in the Lewis Walpole Library
    
    
  • Call Number: Quarto 724 771N
    
  • Status:No information available 
  • Notes:Folded to 25.5 x 24.5 cm; mounted to 32 x 26 cm.
    Mounted on page 181 in a copiously extra-illustrated copy of: King, R. The new London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality. London : Printed for J. Cooke [and 3 others], [1771?].
    
  • Provenance:Schatzki, lot 1193; June 1961; Acquisitions no.: 961-6-3-29.
    With the armorial bookplates of "Fraser, of Ledeclune, baronet" and "Herbert Henry Raphael" in volume. Sold at Sotheby's, 22 April 1901, to Sotheran.
    
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• Medium:laid paper.
  
• Notes:Titles engraved below image, in English and French.
  "An earlier state of this print was first listed in John Bowles's catalogue for 1753, in the series 'Perspective Views in and about London', p.44, number 19"--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: R,9.27.
  Plate from: A survey of the cities of London and Westminster, and the borough of Southwark. London : Printed for W. Innys and J. Richardson [etc.], 1754-55.
  Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides.
  Plate numbered "5" beneath lower right corner of image.
  
• Summary:"View in the park with spectators watching the parade, as George II makes his way to the House of Lords, showing the Horse Guards and the Treasury."--British Museum online catalogue.
  
• In_: King, Richard, Esq. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality. London : Printed for J. Cooke [and 3 others], [1771?]. Page 181.
  
• Variant and related titles:Vüe de la parade dans le Parc de St. James : le Treser, le nouveau batiment de Gardes a Cheval, et la procession du Roy allant a la Chambre des Seigneurs
  
• Format:Visual Material
• Subjects:George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760, depicted.
  Horse Guards (London, England : Building), depicted.
  Great Britain. Treasury--Buildings--Pictorial works.
  Parks--England--London.
  Government facilities.
  Soldiers.
  Parades & processions.
  Spectators.
  Carriages & coaches.
  London (England)--Pictorial works--Early works to 1800.
  Saint James's Park (London, England),
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Raphael, Herbert H.--Ownership
  Fraser, William Augustus Sir, 1826-1898--Ownership.
  
• Genre/Form:Views.
  Book illustrations.
  Etchings--England--London--1754.
  Engravings--England--London--1754.