Read Georgian London: Into the Streets Online
Authors: Lucy Inglis
1. William Hogarth, ‘Noon, 1738’, showing a London street scene including a Huguenot congregation exiting a church service
2. St Martin’s Le Grand, the site for the new Post Office, engraved by J. Bailey, published 1815
3. The Jernegan Cistern. Goldsmith/banker Henry Jernegan commissioned this monumental cistern from Frederick Kandler in 1734
4. Coffee pot made by the silversmith Paul de Lamerie for fellow Huguenot Sir John Lesquesne, 1738
5. ‘A Paraleytic Woman’ by Théodore Géricault, 1821, produced as a print by Charles Hullmandel, Rodwell & Martin
6. A view of Marylebone Pleasure Gardens,
c.
1755
7. Dockhead, Bermondsey, showing the notorious slum of Jacob’s Island,
c
. 1813
8. Castle’s Shipbreaking Yard opposite Baltic Wharf, Millbank. This collection of naval artefacts was later destroyed in the Blitz.
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