Asinelli Tower, Bologna [print] / drawn by R.P. Bonington ; engraved by W.J. Cooke.

Accession number: 
PML 140269.62
Author: 
Cooke, William John, 1797-1865, engraver.
Published: 
London : Published ... by W. Marshall no. 1 Holborn Bars, 1831 ([London] : Printed by Fenner Sears & Co.)
Description: 
1 print : steel engraving ; image: 125 x 80 mm; sheet: 192 x 137 mm
Credit: 
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes: 

Plate issued in the 1832 volume of the literary annual The Gem, published by Wm. Marshall, London.
Subject is the same as that of Bonington's etching "Bologna" and his watercolor painting "Bologna-the leaning towers."
Print is mounted on folio 62 of a bound volume of prints by and after R.P. Bonington (see Bonington album PML 142069).

Provenance: 
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary: 

View of a populated street in Bologna, with the Asinelli Tower rising up in the background.

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