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Authors: Lucy Inglis
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