No. 25 Bishopsgate Volunteer

Name: No. 25 Bishopsgate Volunteer
SKU: BL25
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Bishopsgate Ward (scroll down for a more detailed Description)

The first reprints of the 1798 aquatints by Thomas Rowlandson (published by Rudolph Ackermann) published in 1972 by Hugh Evelyn Limited.
Image size is 20.5 x 25.5 cm [8” x 10”] against a light greyish orange background (c. RGB fcf2e1) impressed on medium high white matt cartridge paper of c. 120 g/m².
Print size: c. 26.2 x 33.7 cm [17” x 12 ¾”] may vary slightly from printers’ cut 50 years ago
Details of London Wards and Parishes provided by © the British Library
We offer thanks to the Trustees of the British Library and British Museum and Wikipedia for some text (and map outlines
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SKU: BL25 Categories: London Infantry Volunteers, The London Volunteers, Uniform

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Crace Collection of Maps of London > This plan was published in William Maitland’s ‘History of London from its Foundation to the Present Time’. The map’s title features in ornamental cartouche near top right, with the arms of dedicatee Matthew Blakiston, the ward’s Alderman, at top left. An illustrated view of St Ethelburga’s church is at bottom left, with Great St Hellen’s church at bottom right. The compass star and scale bar appear at bottom centre. From the Crace Maps of London Collection; © of the British Library Board

Bishopsgate (see map) was one of the eastern gates in London’s former defensive wall. The gate gave its name to the Bishopsgate Ward of the City of London. The ward is traditionally divided into Bishopsgate Within, inside the line wall, and Bishopsgate Without beyond it. Bishopsgate Without is described as part of London’s East End. The ancient boundaries of the City wards were reviewed in 1994 and 2013, so that the wards no longer correspond very closely to their historic extents. Bishopsgate Without gained a significant part of Shoreditch from the London Borough of Hackney, while nearly all of Bishopsgate Within was transferred to other wards.