Temple Bar

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West View of Temple Bar

Inscribed to the Memory of the late Aldn. Pickett to Aldn. Skinner & other promoters of the intended improvements.

AUDINET, P[hilip] after COOPER, B.
London,
Published as the Act directs by B. Cooper, No.4 Earl Street, Chatham Square,
1797
Engraving with aquatint.
Image: 320 by 248mm (12.5 by 9.75 inches). Sheet: 457 by 378mm (18 by 15 inches).
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A view of the entrance to the City of London, Temple Bar. The print is dedicated to Alderman William Pickett, a supporter of the freed slave Olaudah Equiano and later the Lord Mayor of London, who had put forward a plan for the removal of Temple Bar in 1789, in order to make the western entrance into the city easier.

Philip Audinet (1766-1837) was an English line engraver. ...

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Yale Center for British Art B1977.14.18442.

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