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Aspect Général de Londres Vue Prise de l'Abbaye de Westminster.

APPERT, Arnaud; [after] Nicolas Marie Joseph CHAPUY, as "Chapuis"
Paris,
Publiée par A. Appert, Grande Rue, No. 111, aux Paris St. Gervais (Banlieu de Paris),
[c.1850].
Engraving with aquatint.
Image: 517 by 835mm (20.25 by 32.75 inches). Sheet: 635 by 870mm (25 by 34.25 inches).
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The Houses of Parliament are shown complete, and a clutter of old buildings previously shown immediately to the west of the new buildings has been removed. More traffic is shown crossing Westminster Bridge. Tracery has been added to the south transept window of Westminster Abbey. In the distance King's Cross Station and Bishopsgate Station have been added.

A previously unrecorded (third) state of Appert's view. Hyde gives the second state as bearing the imprint '...

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