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London Bridge in 1694details

Image title:	London Bridge in 1694
Source:	Jerrold, Blanchard and Doré, Gustave: “London” (1872)
Place shown:	London, England
Keywords:	cityscapes, bridges, water, houses, people, boats, greyscale
Status:	out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free stock image for all purposes usage credit requested Please do not redistribute without permission, since running this site is expensive.

	The old London Bridge shown in this wonderfully emotive engraving was lined with houses all along, a remarkably unsafe construction that did not survive. The bridge [...] survives in its picturesque masses of houses, arhches, and piers – an irregular street across a broad and rapid stream – in a hundred old drawings. [...] when the tournaments and processions enlivened the flood; and the state barges of the great, and the boats bearing prisoners to the Tower, streamed through its many narrow arches; and the windows and parapets were alive with citizens, it must have made a fine picture... (p. 14) The extract is taken from the original text of London: a pilgrimage, but I do not have a copy of the book itself.
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Artist:	Gustave Doré (1822-1883)
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Image title:

London Bridge in 1694

Source:

Jerrold, Blanchard and Doré, Gustave: “London” (1872)

Place shown:

London, England

Keywords:

cityscapes, bridges, water, houses, people, boats, greyscale

Status:

out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free stock image for all purposes usage credit requested
Please do not redistribute without permission, since running this site is expensive.

The old London Bridge shown in this wonderfully emotive engraving was lined with houses all along, a remarkably unsafe construction that did not survive.

The bridge [...] survives in its picturesque masses of houses, arhches, and piers – an irregular street across a broad and rapid stream – in a hundred old drawings. [...] when the tournaments and processions enlivened the flood; and the state barges of the great, and the boats bearing prisoners to the Tower, streamed through its many narrow arches; and the windows and parapets were alive with citizens, it must have made a fine picture... (p. 14)

The extract is taken from the original text of London: a pilgrimage, but I do not have a copy of the book itself.

Filename:

223-London-Bridge-in-1694-q75-498x500.jpg

Blog image:

http://fromoldbooks.org/r/2t/223-London-Bridge-in-1694-q75-498x500.jpg

Blog link:

http://fromoldbooks.org/r/2t/pages/223-London-Bridge-in-1694/

Artist:

Gustave Doré (1822-1883)

Scanner dpi:

1200

Comment: