Accession No

4510

Brief Description

Mounted aquatint of (old) Cambridge Botanic Gardens, by Westall (artist) and Stadler (engraver), English, 1815

Origin

England

Maker

Stadler. J. [engraver] Westall. W. [artist]

Class

prints; natural history

Earliest Date

1815

Latest Date

1815

Inscription Date

1815

Material

paper (card and one other)

Dimensions

(mounted) breadth 421mm; height 391mm

Special Collection

Provenance

Purchased from the Benet Gallery, Cambridge.

Inscription

‘W. Westall del.t J. Stadler sculp.t
Botanic Garden.
London, Pub. July 1-1815, at 101 Strand, for R. Ackermann’s History of Cambridge.’ (bottom)

Description Notes

Mounted aquatint of (old) Cambridge Botanic Gardens, by Stadler, English, 1815.

Aquatint of Cambridge botanic gardens, showing two visitors, flower beds and greenhouse, with King’s and St. John’s chapels in the background. Plate from Ackermann’s History of Cambridge. Mounted.

Complete.

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