Item Summary

"View in Covent Garden showing St Paul's Church on fire; flames and smoke rising from the roof; in foreground people gather to watch spectacle, some on the tops of stalls, empty barrels, sacks and pieces of wood in foreground to left and right"--British Museum online catalogue.

Descriptive Information

Title
St. Paul's, Covent-Garden : as it appeared on fire, at eight o'clock on Thursday evening, 17th Sepr. 1795 / drawn by B.F. Scott ; engraved by John Scott.
Call Number
C South 03/Drawer 09/GC138/Half Folio GA 2022.00059
Identifier
ark:/88435/dcfn107c85d
Publisher
[London] : Published 5th Novr. 1795 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London, [5 November 1795]
Language
English
Date Created
1795
Format
Visual material
Extent
1 print : etching and engraving on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 27.2 x 42 cm, on sheet 31.5 x 43 cm
Source Acquisition
Princeton copy 1 Gift of Bruce C. Willsie, Princeton class of 1986; 2020.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Title from caption below image.
Text below title begins: Was built by that celebrated architect Inigo Jones, in 1640, by the direction and at the expence of the Earl of Bedford ...

Discovery Information

Subject
St. Paul's Cathedral (London, England)—Pictorial works—Early works to 1800
London (England)—Pictorial works—Early works to 1800
Vues d'optique—Specimens

Physical Characteristics

File Count
1

Institutional Information

Collection
Omega Project
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/19c00290-be43-46bb-8125-51d8b600bd1b/manifest