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- Title:
The Triumpal Arch, Erected, June 17th 1777, in Honor of William Bromley Chester Esqr.
- Date:
- 1782
- Medium:
- Sepia aquatint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 17 7/8 × 25 1/2 inches (45.4 × 64.8 cm), Image: 16 × 24 3/4 inches (40.6 × 62.9 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered, lower left: "John Rickett's Statuary at Gloucester, delt. | W.B.Chester Esqr Pr J. Cooke delt."; lettered, lower right: "A.Robertson fecit"; lettered, lower center: "This Plate of the Triumphal Arch, which was Erected 17th June 1777, to the honor of Wm. Bromley Chester Esqr.; being his first Entry into the City of Gloucester, after | the decission of the House of Commons, on the contested Election for that County; is humbly Inscribed to HIs Grace the Duke of Beaufort, the Nobility, | Clergy and Freeholders of the County of Goucester, by their most humble; obliged and obedient Servant, Jn Ricketts. | London, Published as the Act directs, Oct. 5th 1782 by A. Robertson, Charles Street, St. James's square."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1978.43.298
- 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:42033
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