James Bourier's Grand Hydraulick Water Works
Color-printed mezzotint, Late 18th C.
18th Century Fountain Engineering Marvel
detail

A View of the Grand Hydraulick Water Works (as Exhibited at Exeter-Change in the Strand) by James Bourier, Mechanist to the King of Poland
London: Late 18th Century
Color-printed mezzotint
10.5 x 17.5 inches
$375

Well-dressed onlookers observe a demonstration of an magnificent, elaborate fountain, which takes place in Exeter Change in the Strand, a building that stood in London from 1676 to 1829.

Condition: Generally good with the usual light toning, soiling, wear, soft creases. Margins trimmed to subject but leaving title in lower margin. Now set on later larger sheet.

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