- Object type
- Prints and Drawings
- Date
- Production: 1732 - 1866
- Maker
- The Gentleman's Magazine
- Inscriptions
-
recto: December 1805
St John's Gate
October 1814
September 1825
November 1827
The Gentleman's Magazine / St John's Gate / No LVIII for October 1735.
The Gentleman's Magazine : / St John's Gate / For May 1736
The Gentleman's Magazine; Or, Monthly Intelligencer / numb XXIII for November 1732
The Gentleman's Magazine for Novemb. 1733
This plate purchased at John Bower Nichols Sale / St. John's Gate, Clerkenwell. / The above impressions are from the original Wood Blocks engraved for the Gentleman's magazine, now in the possession of Mr. Robert Cole.
The Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review - Materials and technique
- Printed paper
- Production place
- London
- Related place(s)
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St John’s Gate
Clerkenwell
London - Catalogue number
- 6140
Prints of the Gentleman's Magazine frontispiece
In the mid-18th century, St John's Gate was occupied by the offices of 'The Gentleman's Magazine', which used the building as its masthead on the front cover. Dr Samuel Johnson, of dictionary fame, worked for the magazine as a political reporter.