Dec 04, 2014 - Sale 2369

Sale 2369 - Lot 67

Price Realized: $ 6,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
KIP, JOHN. A Prospect of the City of London * A Prospect of Westminster. Together a pair of folding two-sheet engraved city views, joined, 495x1190 and 495x1135 mm respectively, wide margins. beautiful, dark and crisp impressions. [London, 1718]

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Excellent examples of the two finest views from Kip's Nouveau theatre de la Grande Bretagne. A Prospect of Westminster shows a great stretch of west London and the Thames, as well as Kensington, Hampstead, and Highgate in the background. A Prospect of the City of London shows St. Paul's Cathedral and London Bridge, as well as the many other churches and landmarks of the City rebuilt.