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Untitled (View of the Foundling Hospital, from the driveway)

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Date

1750

Artist

Print after Louis-Philippe Boitard (active 1734-1760)

Collection

Image Link

http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=3291953

Description

View of the Foundling Hospital, from the driveway; a later state of the plate with the addition of the gates at the end of a wide driveway, lawned areas on either side with colonnades at the far ends; the countryside beyond the hospital now further built up with more roads and houses; the figures in the foreground the same as the earlier state . 1750, this state later. Etching and engraving with hand-colouring.

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CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Image Credit

image © Trustees of the British Museum

Location

Guilford Street, London, England

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Tags

Hospitals
Horse-drawn
Roads
Buildings

Category

Buildings & Architecture

Glossary
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