London, Westminster and Southwark as they appeared A.D. 1543.
Etched panorama, laid down on linen in 16 sections, folding into contemporary blue cloth covers, red morocco lettering-piece on front cover.
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Extending from the Palace of Westminster on the left to the Palace of Placentia on the right.
In producing his panorama, Whittock made use of a series of drawings in the Sutherland Collection, then in the Bodleian Library, today in the Ashmolean Museum. These drawings, by an artist from the Low Countries, Antonis van den Wyngaerde, together form a prospect over three metres in length, and constitute our earliest general view of London. For the Bermondsey Abbey...
bibliography:
Howgego, pp.5-6; J. Hayes, 'Catalogue of Oil Paintings in the London Museum' (London: HMSO 1970), pp.5-6; F. Barker and P. Jackson, 'London: 2000 Years...' (London: Cassell 1974), pp.48-55; D.B. Brown, 'Ashmolean Museum, Oxford: Catalogue of Drawings', vol. 4 (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1982), pp.6-9; H. Colvin and S. Foister, 'The Panorama of London circa 1544, by Antonis van den Wyngaerde' (London: LTS, in assn. with the Ashmolean Museum 1996).
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