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London Described

Composite plate, in three strips; at top a plan of London as it appeared in the time of Queen Elizabeth, Westminster Palace and St James's Park to the west, and Wapping in the east; very little development below the river, a compass rose below Bankside; on second strip five small views of London, namely the old buildings near Temple Bar on Fleet Street including the house with Prince Henry's room, Baynard's Castle, a west view of old St Paul's, Cheapside with the cross, and the inside of the Royal Exchange; on third strip a long view of London, showing the destruction of the fire of 1666, from south of the Thames; later state with altered publication line. Etching and engraving

Date
1723–1731
Mapmaker / publisher
Print made by: Thomas Bowles II: Published by: John Bowles
Place
London
Archive
Wikimedia Commons
Type
map
Original size
2,500 × 1,660 pixels

Public domainsafest

Reason: its maker died more than 100 years ago.

Read from: Commons licence category: PD-old-100-expired; no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page; permission field: © The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

Credit line

"London Described" (1723–1731). Print made by: Thomas Bowles II: Published by: John Bowles, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:London_Described_(BM_Heal,Topography.185).jpg

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