No. 59 Royal Westminster Grenadiers

£12.00

Westminster  (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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Description

Map of London, reaching Islington, Limehouse, Vauxhall and Park Lane; with inset view of the Queen’s Palace (Buckingham Palace) and the garden view of St James’s Palace at top right; with a front view of Westminster Abbey at bottom right; a bird’s eye view of London from the Thames and a south west view of St Paul’s at bottom centre and a view of the Monument at bottom left. 1796 Etching and engraving on two sheets, joined, with hand-colouring. Courtesy of The Trustees of The British Museum – Heal,Topography.193.

Westminster, a central area of London, became a city in 1539. (See Map attached – click on it to expand). For centuries Westminster and the City of London were geographically quite distinct. It was not until the sixteenth century that houses began to be built over the adjoining fields, eventually absorbing nearby villages such as Marylebone and Kensington, and gradually creating the vast Greater London that exists today. Westminster is bordered by the City of London to the East and, until 1965 by Marylebone and Paddington to the North (which were both then absorbed into Westminster) and by Kensington and Chelsea to the West. The River Thames forms the Southern border.

Additional information

Weight 0.0121 kg
Dimensions 25.5 × 32.5 cm