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View of the observatory, Oxford
1810
Medium
hand-coloured etching and aquatint
Measurements
21.0 × 30.5 cm (image) 23.4 × 32.7 cm (plate) 23.6 × 33.7 cm (sheet)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1926
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
London, England
Catalogue/s Raisonné
Grego II p. 184
Inscription
printed in ink (in image) l.l.: Rowlandson 1810
printed in ink c.: VIEW OF THE OBSERVATORY. OXFORD / London, Publish’d May 1,1810, at R.Ackermann’s Repository of Arts; 101, Strand.
Accession Number
1958.3-3
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
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Subjects (general)
Human Figures Humour and Satire Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths
Subjects (specific)
academics (people) astronomical observatories astronomy caricatures Oxford (inhabited place) telescopes United Kingdom (nation) universities (institutions)
Movements
Georgian