Author: St. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL.- Architecture.- Prints.- EMMETT, W.- BOWLES.- WREN.-
Title: Upper left corner in cartouche: 'The South/ Prospect of ye Cathedral of S:t Pauls London/ The foundation of this Noble Structure / Began to Be Layd in ye Year of our Lord / 1670, and was Continued w.th all Diligence/ And now Published in the First year of Our/ Soueraine Lady Queen Anne. 1702./ Will: Emmett Fecit.'/ Mid center lower margin: 'ST. PAULS.'
Description: (London), Tho: Bowles, St Pauls Church-yard, 1702. Large folio sheet, folded once. Meas. appr. 70 x 46.5 cm. Original 18th c. engraving. Attached to the left margin of the engraving a separate strip containing the left portion of the engraving. Signed lower left corner: 'Sould by Tho: Bowles in S:t Pauls Church-yard. '& 'J.Simon Sculpt.'. Engraving w. good and visible plate marks. Bénézit, vol. IV, p. 155, William Emmett, active around 1710. '... on remarque surtout, dans un style executées claire et précis, une grande vue interieure de la Cathédrale St. Paul, et deux vues extérieures de la même église.' Especially known for his rare 3 plate suite of St. Paul's Cathedral [Interior, East and South view], of which we offer the South view here. Rare. Harris, British Architectural books 1556 - 1787, p. 143 [under Campbell]: '... Campbell succeeded in procuring the Whitehall designs from William Emmett of Bromley in Kent, a carver and engraver well known to Smith for his engravings of St. Paul's and other Wren Churches, some of which Smith published in the third volume of 'Le nouveau Théâtre (1715)'.: Mark Millard Coll. vol. 2 [British Books], p. 372 [under Wren], refers to a suite of plates of St. Paul's Cathedral, published by Thomas Bowles around 1700. In 'A catalogue of the Churches...'[1749?] '... the cathedral as built is woefully underrepresented, and had been treated better by other engravers, notably William Emmett in a suite published by Thomas Bowles nearly fifty years before.'

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