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Prospect of London as it was flourishing before the destrvction by fire

BM 1981,U.441 1

Two images of London from one plate: Top: Prospect of London as it was flourishing before the destrvction by fire: long view of the city, seen from the tower of St George's Church in Southwark, with St Mary Overy in the foreground, London Bridge on the right to the centre, on the opposite bank St Paul's Cathedral on the left and Tower of London on the right. Below: A new map of the citties sic of London Westminster & ye Borough of Southwarke with their suburbs: map of London from St James's Park on the left to Stepney on the right, a scale below, an ornamental cartouche at top right. 1675 Etching

Date
1675
Archive
Wikimedia Commons
Type
map
Sheets
2
Original size
2,500 × 1,875 pixels

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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.

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"Prospect of London as it was flourishing before the destrvction by fire" (1675). Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Prospect_of_London_as_it_was_flourishing_before_the_destrvction_by_fire_(BM_1981,U.441_1).jpg

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All 2 sheets

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