1793 "HEDSOR LODGE LOOKING TOWARDS MAIDENHEAD" Original hand-coloured aquatint after the drawing by J. Farington R.A, as published in 'An History of the Principle Rivers of Great Britain' by John and Joshia Boydell. Overall size approx 41cm x 30cm including margins. 

The Boydell brothers originally intended to include the rivers Thames, Severn, Forth and Clyde 'and intended to illustrate an original History of those Rivers, including all that adorns, dignifies or enriches them and their Vicinities, whether of Art or Nature'. The project was abandoned at the completion of the History of the Thames. Joseph Constantine Stadler was a printmaker of German origins, working in London between 1780-1819. Joseph Farington (1747-1821) was a landscape painter and diarist. He studied in Manchester, and moved to London in 1763 to be taught in the studio of Richard Wilson. He became a member of the Society of Artists in 1765, joined the Royal Academy at its inception in 1769, and became an academician in 1785