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Id 36583
Category artwork
Author / Composer WALKER, William (1729-1793), engraver
Title View of the magnificent Box erected for their Majesties, in Westminster Abbey, under the Direction of Mr. James Wyatt, at the Commemoration of Handel.
Place [London]
Publisher [J. Sewell]
Publication Date [1784]
ISBN / Plate No.
Series
Size 4to. 266 x 182mm
Description Mounted on a larger sheet. Line engraving by William and John Walker (fl.1784-1802) Walker after the artist John Dixon (1740-ca 1811). From the European Magazine [European Magazine and London Review, 1784]. Westminster Abbey's nave is depicted from the organ screen, facing West, with the specially constructed royal box at the far end in the distance and a multitude of boxes along the aisles crowded with audience, the nave floorspace also filled with people.
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Price £45.00

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