Grand Architectural Panorama of London. Regent Street to Westminster Abbey

People:

R. Sandeman (draughtsman)
George Cargill Leighton (engraver (printmaker))

Title:

Grand Architectural Panorama of London. Regent Street to Westminster Abbey

Date:

1849

Description:

This album bears a title page as follows (glued to the inside cover):

Grand Architectural Panorama of London. Regent Street to Westminster Abbey. From original drawings made expressly for the work by R. Sandeman, architect, and executed on wood by George C. Leighton. London: published by I. Writelaw, 188, Fleet Street; Sold by Simpkin, Marshall, & Co. Stationers' Hall Court; and to be had of all booksellers. Printed by Leightons and Taylor, 10, Lamb's Conduit Street, 1849.

A folded panoramic engraved view begins at left with St. Margaret Church and Westminster Abbey and continues to All Soul's Church. In between, are depicted monuments, buildings, shops, companies, streets, horses, carriages and people, through the following streets : Great George Street; Upper Class Street; Parliament Street; Downing Street; Spring Gardens/Charing Cross; Trafalgar Square/Spring Gardens; Warwick Street; Cockspur Street; Duke of York's Monument, Waterloo Place; Charles Street; Jermyn Street; Piccadilly Regent Circus; Vine Street; Swallow Street; Vigo Street; Leicester Street; New Burlington Street; Conduit Street; Madox Street; Hanover Street; Princes' Street; Oxford Street; Great Castle Street; Margaret Street; Mortimer Street; Langham Place and Portland Place.

Quantity / Object type:
1 album(s)

Technique and media:

Engravings

Dimensions:

album: 15,3 x 18,2 x 0,9 cm composition: 11,2 x 482 cm sheet (approx.): 14,2 x 483,5 cm

Reference number:

PH1979:0548

Physical characteristics and technical requirements:

- Purple brown cloth covered cover boards and spine, title and pictorial cover in gilt; embossed motifs on front and back cover boards. Title page with red lettering and motifs glued inside front cover. Glued together in four places, 41-page concertina folded panorama (first page is glued to inside back cover of album).

Inscription:

imprinted and dated

Location:

City of London London Greater London England United Kingdom

Subject:

architecture
topographic
urban planning

Subject Descriptive Terms:

trees
people
doors
chimneys (architectural elements)
windows
balconies
railings
clocks
cart
pilasters
buildings
streets
columns (architectural elements)
church towers
crosses (visual works)
churches
arches
monuments
pediments
pedestrians
religious buildings
colonnades
shops
arched entrance
boutiques
sidewalks
advertisement
letters (signs)
balcony railing
engraving (print)
tower (building component)
horse-drawn carriage
domed building

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

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