A View of New Palace Yard Westminster: Veüe de New Palace Yard a Westminster

by John Boydell

$750 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

A wonderful vue d'optique of Westminster London with stunning early colour. During the eighteenth century vues d'optique or perspective views became extremely popular in England and Europe. Like other optical prints they capitalized on a connoisseur market eager for the latest novelty. English publishers such as John Bowles and Robert Sayer had great success with these optical views, which quickly developed into a collecting craze that swept through print shops on

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