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Description: | Coloured aquatint. In this view of Westminster Hall, groups of people are gathered in discussion within the hall, the oldest extant building of the Palace of Westminster. Above them is the impressive hammer-beam roof, designed during the reign of Richard II.
This aquatint print is the result of a collaboration between the English artist Thomas Rowlandson and French architectural draughtsman Augustus Charles Pugin. Pugin drew the architectural scenes and Rowlandson added the characters. It is an illustration to ‘The Microcosm of London’, a series of aquatints with accompanying texts concerned both with the antiquities of London and contemporary life in the city. The work was published by Rudolph Ackermann, the most important publisher of illustrated books in England during the first half of the 19th century, who worked from ‘The Repository of Arts’ (the premises of his publishing business) on the Strand. Issued in monthly installments from 1808 to 1810, ‘The Microcosm of London’ eventually comprised three volumes, which together contained over 100 illustrations. | Subjects: | tracery wig hall legal interior topography walking stick hammerbeam judge government building man | Temporal: | 1809 | Source: | Government Art Collection | Creator: | Auguste Charles Pugin (Artist) | Identifier: | http://www.gac.culture.gov.uk/work.aspx?... | Go to resource |
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