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Frederick Christian Lewis the Elder, 1779–1856, British, View of Old Aberdeen, Including King's College and the Cathedral, 1808
- Title:
View of Old Aberdeen, Including King's College and the Cathedral
- Date:
- 1808
- Medium:
- Colored aquatint on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 21 1/4 × 28 3/8 inches (54 × 72.1 cm), Plate: 19 3/4 × 27 1/2 inches (50.2 × 69.9 cm), Image: 16 13/16 × 24 1/2 inches (42.7 × 62.2 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered, lower center: "VIEW of OLD ABERDEEN, including KINGS COLLEGE and the CATHEDRAL. | Under the Patronage of His Royal HIghness the Prince of Wales. | To His Grace Alexander Duke of Gordon, Chancellor, the Rt. Honble. Sylvester Lord Glenbervie, Rector, Roderick Macleod, D.D. Principal, and the Proffesors of the University and Kings College of Aberdeen | This View of the Seat of that ANCIENT SEMINARY, is respectfully Inscribed by their most obedient humble Servant. | JOHN EWEN. | Pub'd by J.Ewen Aberdeen 1, March 1808."; lettered, lower left: "Painted by A. Nasmyth from a drawing by R. Seaton."; lettered, lower right: "Engraved by F.C.Lewis."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1978.43.286
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:42021
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