A view in Regent's Park, 1831 [graphic].

Creator:
Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784-1851, printmaker. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr90024938
Physical Description:
1 print : aquatint with etching and engaving on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 26.3 x 33 cm, on sheet 33.3 x 43 cm.
Notes:
Companion print to: View in White Chapel Road 1830.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Series title from text above image.
Title from text below image.
Abstract:
Steam-driven coaches and carriages and three-wheeled vehicles loaded with well-dressed passengers fill Regent's Park. The chaos and conjestion fill the park with dust and dark smoke and result in accidents.
Variant Titles:
Progress of steam. Alken's illustration of modern prophecy.
The progress of steam. Alken's illustration of modern prophecy
Topics:
Clothing & dress--1820-1830.
Crowds.
Parks--England--London.
Steam automobiles.
Traffic accidents.
Topics:
Regent's Park (London, England)--http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh93002692
Topics:
Bobins, Norman R.--Ownership.
S. and J. Fuller, publisher. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr2004010084
Language:
English
Genre:
Aquatints--England--London--1828.
Etchings--England--London--1828.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1828.
Format:
Image
Content Type:
Prints & Photographs
Rights:
These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html
Call Number:
828.02.20.01+
Orbis Record:
13844634
Yale Collection:
Lewis Walpole Library
Digital Collection:
Lewis Walpole Library
Local Record Number:
lwlpr36949
OID:
16704600
PID:
digcoll:4680423