View of London from St Paul's Cathedral looking Eastward - a panoramic bird's eye view by J. Sulman for The Illustrated London News, 1892 art print poster canvas gift Surface:Art paper 140gsm Merian’s town views are famous

Merian’s town views are famous for their detail and provide extraordinary insight into 16th and 17th century urban life

To which are added a few which still exist

They lay between Chelsea Harbour and the end of the King's Road and flourished between 1845 and 1877

and the French flagship Orient spectacularly exploded at about 22-00

7 inch /  60

View of London from St Paul's Cathedral looking Eastward - a panoramic bird's eye view by J. Sulman for The Illustrated London News, 1892 art print poster canvas gift Surface:Art paper 140gsm Merian’s town views are famousView of London from St Paul's Cathedral looking Eastward. A magnificent highly detailed panoramic bird's eye view of Victorian London, printed and hand coloured by J. Sulman for The Illustrated London News in 1892. The Illustrated London News was the first and the longest running illustrated weekly news magazine. It was founded by Herbert Ingram and was published until 2003. Herbert Ingram was born in 1811 in Boston, Lincolnshire. In around 1834