MAGNIFICENT VIEW OF VICTORIAN LONDON
“London from the South side of the Thames“, large format wood engraving made by Robert Loudan Sr., based on a drawing by Thomas Sulman. Published around 1870 as a supplement to The Illustrated London News. Coloured by a later hand. Size: 42.5 x 131 cm.
A highly detailed panorama of London as seen from a hot air balloon. The city is viewed from a point above Kensington, showing the Thames from the Houses of Parliament to St Katherine Docks in the year before the Thames Embankment bill was passed, the legislation that led to the construction of the Victoria and Albert Embankments. On the north side of the Thames, we see Buckingham Palace, Hyde Park Corner, Big Ben, Trafalgar Square, St Paul’s Cathedral, the Monument, and the Tower of London, with Regent’s Park, Hampstead, and Highgate visible in the distance. On the south side of the Thames, there are Lambeth Palace, Bethlem Royal Hospital (now the Imperial War Museum), Waterloo Station, St George’s Circus, and Elephant and Castle.
Thomas Sulman (c. 1834-1900) was a specialist in creating cityscapes from a bird’s-eye perspective using balloons, including views of London, Oxford, Glasgow, and New York. He worked for The Illustrated London News. Sulman studied at the Working Men’s College in London between 1854-1858, where he was a student of, and later an engraver for, Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
Price: Euro 2.650,-
