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A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
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Mr Robert Barker, Inventor and Proprietor of the Panorama.
G. Ralph pinx.t. J. Singleton Sculp.t.
Published Oct.r 1,,st 1802, by W.m Richardson, York House, Strand.
Rare Stipple. Sheet 170 x 130mm (6¾ x 5¼"). Trimmed at sides.
Half-length portrait of Robert Barker (1739-1806), who coined the word 'panorama' in 1792 for his method of painting 360º views on a cylindrical surface. The following year he opened the world's first purpose-built panorama building, in Leicester Square. One of his most successful panoramas, showing London from the roof of Albion Mills, drawn by his son Henry Aston Barker, was published on six sheets in 1792.
[Ref: 57194] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)
G. Ralph pinx.t. J. Singleton Sculp.t.
Published Oct.r 1,,st 1802, by W.m Richardson, York House, Strand.
Rare Stipple. Sheet 170 x 130mm (6¾ x 5¼"). Trimmed at sides.
Half-length portrait of Robert Barker (1739-1806), who coined the word 'panorama' in 1792 for his method of painting 360º views on a cylindrical surface. The following year he opened the world's first purpose-built panorama building, in Leicester Square. One of his most successful panoramas, showing London from the roof of Albion Mills, drawn by his son Henry Aston Barker, was published on six sheets in 1792.
[Ref: 57194] £240.00 (£288.00 incl.VAT)