London Prints

19x11 cm

View of the Lodge in the Green Park.
London, Published Jan^y. 1^st 1791 by A.Robertson & W.Faden.

Hand coloured aquatint published in A Topographical Survey of the Great Road from London to Bath and Bristol...by Archibald Robertson. London, William Faden, 1792.
The aquatint engravings published in this work are all unsigned, but were almost certainly by the author of the work, Archibald Robertson (fl.1777-1796) who was a print-seller and drawing master trading from Saville Row and, from 1782, Charles Street St. James's Square. Robertson is known as a landscape painter and for his aquatints. His first aquatints were jointly published with well known watercolourist, Paul Sandby (c1731-1809). 

The aqautint shows the deputy ranger's house, Green Park Lodge. The deputy ranger at the time was Lord William Gordon (1744-1823), appointed in 1778 and granted a long lease to the lodge by King George III. The lodge was demolished in the early 1840's.



Uncommon hand coloured aquatint.