These landscapes date from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries. They were purchased to decorate the Bank of England’s parlours. Together, they show how London’s landscape changed from the reign of Charles I to that of Queen Victoria.
Thomas Wyck, Whitehall and St. James’ Park, c.1649, 0590
Jan Griffier, Covent Garden, c.1710, 1137
Peter Tillemans, London from Greenwich Park, c.1720, 0576(i)
Joseph Van Aken, The Old Stocks Market, c.1735, 0363
Antonio Joli, Westminster from the River, c.1746, 0587
Samuel Scott, The Building of Westminster Bridge, 1749, 0589
Herbert Pugh, London Bridge from the Old Swan, c.1765, 0366
Daniel Turner, Westminster Bridge and Abbey, c.1790, 0588
Daniel Turner, The Thames at London Bridge, c.1790, 1346
Charles Deane, Waterloo Bridge and the Thames from Westminster, 1821, 0585
Thomas Hastings, Hampstead Ponds, 1800s, 1141
Edmund John Niemann, Waterloo Bridge from the West, c.1860, 1382. Henry Dawson, The Pool of London, c.1870, 0583.
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