Foundling Hospital (after Louis-Philippe Boitard)
Nathaniel Parr (fl.1730-1769)
Category
Art / Prints
Date
1750
Materials
Glass, Paper, Wood
Measurements
324 mm (Width); 517 mm (L)
Order this imageCollection
Dyrham, Gloucestershire
NT 452925
Summary
Print, coloured engraving, Foundling Hospital (after Louis-Philippe Boitard) by Nathaniel Parr (fl.1730-1769) View looking down a wide street towards the hospital; small fields on either side of street with grazing deer, hills and countryside behind hospital; colourful figures in foreground, a tavern on the left and a walled garden on the right in which two figures play skittles.
Full description
On reverse of frame 'Published according to Act of Parliament January 1750. / A View of the Foundling Hospital.'
Makers and roles
Nathaniel Parr (fl.1730-1769), engraver (printmaker) after Louis-Philippe Boitard (fl.1734 - 1760), artist