Research Catalog

Title

London : a history in paintings & illustrations / Stephen Porter.

Author

Porter, S. (Stephen)

Publication

Stroud, Gloucestershire : Amberley, 2014.

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Details

Description

287 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 18 x 25 cm

Summary

London has been an irresistible subject for generations of artists and draughtsmen, who have captured scenes of everyday life as well as the grand occasions in a variety of moods and weather. Their work has provided us with a rich legacy that is a record of London and its people, complementing the testimony of writers in portraying the splendour and the variety, the humour and sometimes the folly within the metropolis. The range of illustrations includes the atmospheric paintings of Claude de Jongh from the early seventeenth century, the Georgian elegance shown on Canaletto's cultured canvases, and Gustave Dore's disturbingly grim images of slum dwellers in Victorian London. The map-makers, too, captured the layout and character of the city and its many districts. But there are other illustrations, by little-known or anonymous draughtsmen, of particular corners or details of life within London's many worlds. A Dutch visitor, Johannes de Witt, was at the Swan Theatre on Bankside in 1596 and sent a sketch of the interior to an acquaintance, whose copy is the only contemporary illustration of the interior of a playhouse of Shakespeare's time. That is just one of the invaluable survivals which provide us with windows into London's past. This spectacular collection of images from medieval times to the present includes paintings, sketches and prints, and is accompanied by authoritative explanatory accounts of the places, people and subjects illustrated.

Subject

• History in art
• histories (visual works)
• Manners and customs
• London (England) > In art
• London (England) > Social life and customs > Pictorial works
• England > London

Genre/Form

• Art.
• Pictorial works.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 2813-284) and index.

Contents

Part one. Londinium ; Anglo-Saxon and Norman London ; Medieval London ; Tudor and Jacobean London ; The Civil War and beyond ; The Georgian era ; Victoria's reign ; The twentieth century. -- Part two. The city ; St. Paul's ; Cheapside ; The Tower of London ; London Bridge ; Tower Bridge ; The Royal Exchange ; The Bank of England ; The Stock Exchange ; Fleet Street and Temple Bar ; The Temple ; The Inns of Court ; Smithfield ; The Charterhouse ; Frost fairs ; Coffee houses and gentlemen's clubs ; The Strand ; Covent Garden ; Trafalgar Square ; Whitehall ; Westminster ; The West End ; Parks and pleasure gardens ; Spitalfields ; The East End ; Southwark ; Bankside ; Lambeth ; Chelsea ; Greenwich.

ISBN

• 9781445632742
• 1445632748
• 9781445632858 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2015472589

OCLC

• ocn920947777
• 920947777
• SCSB-1837018

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library