- Subject
- Print Collection
- Item type
- Object
- Provenance
- Purchased.
- Primary inscriptions
- "A. Pugin del.t", "J. Bluck sculp.t" and "LIBRARY of ALL SOULS COLLEGE. / London Pub..d 1 June 1814, at 101 Strand, for R. Ackermann's History of Oxford"
- Physical material
- Paper
- Physical technique
- Aquatint
- Object type
- Dimensions
- Height: 451mm Width: 400mm
- Inventory No
- 14307
- Accession Number
- 2002-16
Description
Shows orrery, lodestone and single globe with suspended dust cover (viewpoint obscures second globe).
John Bluck made a number of aquatint engravings in collaboration with the French architectural artist Auguste Pugin (father of the architect Pugin).
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