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

Grand Architectural Panorama of London. Regent Street to Westminster Abbey

1849

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.

Engravings

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

PH1979:0548

- 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).

imprinted and dated

City of London London Greater London Angleterre Royaume-Uni

• architecture
• topographique
• urbanisme

• 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