View of the Canal in St. James's Park / Veüe du Canal dans le Parc de St. Jacques

by Peter Charles Canot, after John Maurer

$200 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

A lovely view down the length of the canal in St. James Park as seen from Buckingham Palace, from A Collection of Views of Old London and its Environs, a series of plates originally engraved for the publisher John Bowles in the mid 1700s and later reissued in the nineteenth century by Francis West. This particular plate was first published by John Bowles & Son in 1746. Born in France in 1713, Peter Charles Canot was a prolific line engraver who was active in England

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