| Method | Etching |
| Artist | after Jan Besoet and Pieter de Swart |
| Published | Printed for R. Baldwin jan: at the Rose in Pater Noster Row. [1749] |
| Dimensions | Image & Sheet 208 x 423 mm |
| Notes |
Inscription beneath title reads: Engrav'd for the London Magazine, 1749. Front view of the temporary structure erected on the Hofvijver at the Hague for fireworks to celebrate the Peace of Aachen the previous year. Robert Baldwin was a British bookseller and print publisher active between 1746 and 1810. Between 1746 and 1784 he published the London Magazine. . The London Magazine was founded in 1732 in political opposition to the Tory-based Gentleman's Magazine and ran for 53 years until its closure in 1785. In 1820, the London Magazine was resurrected by the publishers Baldwin, Craddock & Joy under the editorship of John Scott, who formatted the magazine along the lines of the Edinburgh publication Blackwood's Magazine. It was during this time the magazine enjoyed its greatest literary prosperity publishing poetic luminaries such as William Wordsworth, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Clare and John Keats. In September 1821, the first of two installments of Thomas De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-Eater appeared in the journal; these were later published in book form. Scott quickly began a literary row with members of the Blackwood's, in particular with Dr. John Gibson Lockhart. The rivalry ended in a fatal duel between Scott and Lockhart's close friend and workmate J. H. Christie. Scott lost the duel and his life in 1821. The magazine continued under the editorship of John Taylor and included a working staff of Thomas Hood, William Hazlitt and Charles Lamb. During this time Lamb published his earliest series of Essays of Elia in 1823. The magazine dwindled in success towards the end of the decade due to Taylor's insistent tampering of the poets' works and was abandoned by many of its staff, including Lamb and Hazlitt. The magazine again ceased publication in 1829. Condition: Vertical folds as issued. Trimmed to image margins on left and right sides. |
| Framing | unmounted |
| Price | £50.00 |
| Stock ID | 28660 |