Title
[Quin's Monument, Bath] / Sparrow fe.
Creator
Sparrow, Samuel, active 1783?-1815?, printmaker.
Publication details
[England] : [Publisher not identified], [1790]
Physical details
1 print : etching ; sheet 16.1 x 11.5 cm
Description
Inside Bath Abbey; a couple in the right foreground looking up; Dr Johnson, Boswell and Garrick surveying the bust of James Quin; gothic architecture above. Bears inscription in brown ink 'Inside View of the Cathedral at Bath 1790' below image and in pencil on verso.
Place
Bath (England)
Additional information
A print, possibly from the same plate but with letters added is in the British Museum 1875,0710.5374. This print was published in the European Magazine (vol. 21, 1792) and is inscribed: '"Drawn on the Spot by J. Nixon"; "Sparrow sc."; "Publish'd by J. Sewell Cornhill July 1; 1790."; "European Magazine."'
Other persons
Nixon, John, 1724-1815, artist.
Shelfmark
Maps K.Top.37.27.i.