The Post Office. Plate 63.
Pugin & Rowlandson del.t et sculp.t. aquat.
London. Pub 1st April 1809, at R. Ackermann’s Repository of Arts 101, Strand.
Hand coloured aquatint, plate 240 x 280mm (9½ x 11"), with very large margins
An interior view of the busy Post Office when it was housed in Sir Robert Vyner's house in Lombard Street. It was here that letters were sorted for delivery in the morning and newspapers were sorted in the evening. Published in Ackermann's famous work, the 'Microcosm of London', the figures were drawn by the famous caricaturist Thomas Rowlandson and the architecture by Augustus Pugin.
Abbey, Scenery: 212.
[Ref: 62695] £150.00
London. Pub 1st April 1809, at R. Ackermann’s Repository of Arts 101, Strand.
Hand coloured aquatint, plate 240 x 280mm (9½ x 11"), with very large margins
An interior view of the busy Post Office when it was housed in Sir Robert Vyner's house in Lombard Street. It was here that letters were sorted for delivery in the morning and newspapers were sorted in the evening. Published in Ackermann's famous work, the 'Microcosm of London', the figures were drawn by the famous caricaturist Thomas Rowlandson and the architecture by Augustus Pugin.
Abbey, Scenery: 212.
[Ref: 62695] £150.00