Westminster Bridge

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Vue du Pont de Westminster

d'aprés le Tableau original, qui est dans le Cabinet de M.F. Drouhin 1799.

ALIX, P[ierre] M[ichel]
[Paris],
Pierre-Michel Alix,
1799
Aquatint with original hand colour.
Image: 410 by 615mm (16.25 by 24.25 inches). Sheet: 440 by 630mm (17.25 by 24.75 inches).
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notes:

notes:

A view of Westminster Bridge, after a painting owned by Marie-Francois Drouhin, a Parisian printer.

Pierre Michel Alix (1762-1817) was a French engraver and caricaturist, active in Paris, who made a successful career during the French Revolution producing prints of revolutionary leaders and allegories. He quietly destroyed these when the Revolution foundered and was later well known for a print of Napoleon as Emperor. ...

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bibliography:

BM 1880,1113.1328.

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