Miletus
Etching and Aquatint
1779-80 (published)
1779-80 (published)
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Etching and aquatint depicting a view of a historical site in Turkey. Lettered with title, date, and artist's and publisher's names.
Object details
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| Title | Miletus (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Etching and aquatint |
| Brief description | Etching and aquatint by Paul Sandby, after a drawing by William Pars, depicting a view of a historical site in Turkey. Great Britain, ca. 1779-1780. |
| Physical description | Etching and aquatint depicting a view of a historical site in Turkey. Lettered with title, date, and artist's and publisher's names. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | P Sandby F W Pars Pinx Publishd by P Sandby St Georges Row Oxford Turnpike January 1st 1780. (Lettered) |
| Credit line | Purchased with the assistance of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, Art Fund, Shell International and the Friends of the V&A |
| Production | Sandby applied to the Society of Dilettanti for permission to aquatint Pars's views in 1776 and 1777, and the set of eleven (possibly twelve) were probably completed in 1780. They were also engraved for Richard Chandler's, 'Ionian Antiquities' or 'Ruins of Magnificent & Famous Buildings in Ionia', published by the Society of Dilettanti over a number of years (Vol.I, 1769; Vol.II, 1797; three further volumes in 1821, 1840 and 1881). |
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| Accession number | SP.450 |
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| Record created | July 1, 2009 |
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