Georgian London: Into the Streets

by Lucy Inglis

9. The Yard of the Oxford Arms Inn, with St Paul’s Cathedral in the background

  10. Capper’s Farmhouse being slowly consumed by Heal’s, Tottenham Court Road, 1913. Note the furniture-packing crates on the right

  11. ‘The Tower of London’, from an engraving by William Miller after J. M. W. Turner, 1832

  12. ‘New London Bridge, with the Lord Mayor’s Procession Passing Under the Unfinish’d Arches’, after Thomas Hosmer Shepherd, 1827

  13. ‘Southwark Bridge from Bank Side’, after Thomas Hosmer Shepherd, 1827

  14. ‘Wapping Old Stairs’, from The Miseries of London, by Thomas Rowlandson, 1812

  15. ‘The five orders of Perriwigs as they were worn at the late Coronation measured Architectonically’, William Hogarth, 1761

  16. ‘The Fellow ’Prentices at their Looms, Representing Industry and Idleness’, William Hogarth, 1747

  17. ‘The Frost Fair of the Winter of 1683–4 on the Thames, with Old London Bridge in the Distance’, c. 1685

  18. ‘Mr. Lunardi’s New Balloon, 29 June 1785’, by J. C. Ibbetson

  19. ‘Christie’s Auction Room’, by Thomas Rowlandson and Augustus Pugin, Microcosm of London, 1809

  20. ‘Watch House’, by Thomas Rowlandson and Augustus Pugin, Microcosm of London, 1809: a view of the interior of St James’s Watch House

  21. ‘The Hall and Stair Case of the British Museum’, by Thomas Rowlandson and Augustus Pugin, Microcosm of London, 1809

  22. The Portland Vase, currently dated c. AD 25, purchased by Margaret, the Dowager Duchess of Portland, in 1785

  23. ‘Workhouse’, by Thomas Rowlandson and Augustus Pugin, Microcosm of London, 1809: a view of the interior of St James’s Workhouse

  24. Tokens given by mothers to their children on leaving them at the Foundling Hospital, eighteenth century

  25. ‘View of St James’s from Green Park, London’, by Benjamin Read, c. 1838

  26. A Spitalfields silk waistcoat made for a wedding, early nineteenth century

  27. ‘The Rhinebeck Panorama’, depicting the Thames in the early nineteenth century

  28. ‘A View of the London Docks, 1808’, by William Daniell

  29. ‘Entrance to the Thames Tunnel, 1836’, engraved by B. Dixie

  30. ‘A View of the Highgate Archway, 1821’, engraved by John Hill, after Augustus Pugin

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