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Description: | Coloured engraving . Covent Garden is seen here from the south east side of the colonnade, populated by several figures: at the right a woman sells her wares (perhaps apples), a pair of shoe-shiners wait for customers, a gentleman and lady walk beneath the colonnade on the left, a boy plays with a hoop and two boys play marbles in the foreground to left. Others figures lean against the wooden railings and, in the centre of the square, several people sell goods from large baskets.
This view is taken from engraver Edward Rooker's series ‘Six Views of London’. Rooker originally published the engravings himself in 1767–68, although the engraver and printseller John Boydell (1720-1804) re-issued the prints in 1777 after Rooker’s death, adding a seventh view of the Admiralty. Five of the original six views were made after drawings by architect and draughtsman Thomas Sandby and his younger brother Paul (c.1731-1809) a painter and engraver. The sixth (a view of ‘The Horse Guards’) was after a work by Rooker’s son Michael (1746-1801). | Subjects: | genre hoop-rolling sedan chair carriage vendor shoeshiner table sunlight public square playing bollard topography window 18th century costume apple dress woman tricorn hat basket piazza dog townscape/cityscape boy arcade man | Temporal: | 1768 | Source: | Government Art Collection | Creator: | Edward Rooker (Engraver) | Identifier: | http://www.gac.culture.gov.uk/work.aspx?... | Go to resource |
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