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![CANOT, P[ierre] C[harles], after SCOTT, Samuel A View of Westminster Bridge, with parts adjacent as in the Year 1760.](https://omega.crouchrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/12338_1H.jpg)
A View of Westminster Bridge, with parts adjacent as in the Year 1760.
Engraved from the Original Painting.
[London],
Published according to Act of Parliament,
Feb. 25, 1761.
Engraving.
Image: 288 by 544mm (11.25 by 21.5 inches). Sheet: 350 by 590mm (13.75 by 23.25 inches).
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notes:
The completed Westminster Bridge, designed by Charles Labelye, based on a picture by the painter Samuel Scott (c1702-1772), and engraved by Pierre Charles Canot (c1710-77).
Samuel Scott was a great friend of William Hogarth, acting as a Governor to Hogarth's pet project, the Foundling Hospital, and making up one of the party of four that Hogarth took with him on a journey around Kent, later recorded by Ebenezer Forest and illustrated by Scott and Hogarth. After f...
Samuel Scott was a great friend of William Hogarth, acting as a Governor to Hogarth's pet project, the Foundling Hospital, and making up one of the party of four that Hogarth took with him on a journey around Kent, later recorded by Ebenezer Forest and illustrated by Scott and Hogarth. After f...
bibliography:
Katharine Baetjer, British Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art 1575-1875 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2009), pp.48-50; BM 1877,0609.1871; Ellis Kirkham Waterhouse, Painting in Britain 1530 to 1790, (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994), pp.159-160.
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