Bologna [print] / R.P.B.

Accession number: 
PML 140269.63
Author: 
Bonington, Richard Parkes, 1801-1828.
Published: 
[London? : s.n., 1827 or 1828]
Description: 
1 print : etching ; image: 172 x 116 mm; sheet: 205 x 125 mm
Credit: 
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes: 

Early state of the only etching known to have been completed by R.P. Bonington, lacking the imprint and facsimile signature of the artist found in the published state of Oct. 15, 1828. Cf. Curtis.
Print is mounted on folio 63 of a bound volume of prints by and after R.P. Bonington (see Bonington album PML 142069).
Inscription in pencil on page below plate reads: Unique state.

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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