A birds-eye view

By WHITTOCK, Nathaniel and Edmund WALKER, 1859

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London in the Reign of Queen Victoria.

British Isles London

Author: WHITTOCK, Nathaniel and Edmund WALKER
Publication place: London
Publisher: Lloyd Brothers & Co., 96 Gracechurch Street
Publication date: January 1st, 1859.
Physical description: Long tinted lithographic panorama marked as Proof in the stone, wide margins; restorations to folds.
Dimensions: 1200 by 340mm (47.25 by 13.5 inches).
Inventory reference: 1574

Notes

Proofs, early impressions on better paper, were priced at £2 2s, double the price of an ordinary print. Nathaniel Whittock made the drawings for this panoramic birds-eye view as from above Southwark. ‘Though by what means could in that locality have attained such an elevation that enabled him to draw his plan,we are at a loss to conceive’ marvelled a contemporary writer in the Art Journal (vol. V, p. 128). Edmund Walker transferred Whittock’s drawing onto stone and the leading lithographers of the day printed it.