Royal Lisence and Copyright for Encyclopaedia Londinesis
19th century
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 11 9/16 × 8 11/16 in. (29.3 × 22 cm)
Classification
Prints|Ephemera
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Bella C. Landauer, 1926
Accession Number
26.28.181
Art Historical Context
Step into the world of 19th-century British publishing with this intriguing engraving, *Royal Licence and Copyright for Encyclopaedia Londinensis*. Created anonymously by a British artist in the 19th century, this measures 11 9/16 × 8 11/16 inches and served as an official document granting royal privilege and copyright protection to the ambitious *Encyclopaedia Londinensis*. Published 1810 and 1829, this multi-volume compendium was a monumental effort to catalog knowledge—from natural history to arts and sciences—complete with thousands of exquisite illustrations, making it a cornerstone of E...