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The Night of an Illumination.

The Night of an Illumination.

[After Augustus Pugin.]
Published by Edwd. Orme, Bond Street, 1806.
Etching and aquatint in colour, one sheet of two. 350 x 500mm. Trimmed to plate mark top and bottom. Paper edges tatty, with small tears. Tear into plate at left, just short of image. Light foxing/staining in title area. Pin hole in centre of sky area.
The right plate of two of the 'Illumination For Peace', a view of figures gathered at the residence of the French envoy, L. G. Otto, in Portman Square to watch an illumination celebrating the Peace of Amiens, 1802, between Britain and France. A single-sheet version engraved by Stadler was published by Orme in 1802.
[Ref: 4496]  £480.00


 

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