Mapping London

Walter Crane, Imperial Federation Map of the World Showing the Extent of the British Empire (1886) Published in The Graphic Magazine, July 24, 1886

Eugène Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People (1830)

B. R. DaviesLondon and its Environs (1841)

The Great Fire of London (1666)Painting of what it may have looked like on September 4, 1666

Richard Newcourt(author) and William Faithorne (engraver)An Exact Delineation of the Cities of London and Westminster… (1658)

Richard Newcourt(author) and William Faithorne (engraver)An Exact Delineation of the Cities of London and Westminster… (1658)

John Leake and William LeyburnAn Exact Surveigh of the Streets and Lanes and Churches Contained within the Ruines of the City of London (1666, this is a second edition from 1667)

John Leake and William LeyburnAn Exact Surveigh of the Streets and Lanes and Churches Contained within the Ruines of the City of London (1666, this is a second edition from 1667)

John Ogilby and William MorganA Large and Accurate Map of the City of London (1676)

Christopher WrenA Plan of the City of London after the Fire in the Year of Our Lord 1666, with the Model of the New City (1666, this print from 1749)

Baroque Rome as designed by Pope Sixtus V(late 16th c.)

Versailles designed for French monarchy (17th-18th

c.)

John Ogilby and William MorganA Large and Accurate Map of the City of London [Detail] (1676)

Wiliam Faden Plan of a Street Proposed from Charing Cross to Portland Place (1814)

Regency London is characterized by the redevelopment plans ofthe Prince Regent and architect, John Nash

Thomas Hornor’s observation shack on the top of St. Paul’s Cathedral (1820-21)

Colosseum in Regent’s Park (1824-29)Thomas Hornor (panorama design)Decimus Burton (architect)E. T. Parris (artist)

John Rocque (surveyor and author) and John Pine (engraver)A plan of the cities of London and Westminster, and borough of Southwark (1746)

John Rocque (surveyor and author) and John Pine (engraver)A plan of the cities of London and Westminster, and borough of Southwark (1746)

John Rocque (surveyor and author) and John Pine (engraver)A plan of the cities of London and Westminster, and borough of Southwark (1746)

Cruchley’s New Plan of London (1849)Earlier editions published in 1829, 1830, 1833 and 1847

John Fairburn, A Correct Plan of the London Docks (1800)

William Daniell, An Elevated View of the New Dock in Wapping (1803)

William Daniell, A View of the East India Docks (1808)

William Parrot, West India Docks, from the South East (1840)

Gustav Doré, Inside the Docks (1872)

Gustav Doré, St Katherine's Dock (1872)

Gustav Doré, The Docks - Night Scene (1872)

James Abbot McNeill Whistler, Wapping (1860-64)

WhistlerNocturne in Blue and Gold: Old Battersea Bridge1872-77

WhistlerNocturne: Blue and Silver - Cremorne Lights1872

William Strudwick (photographer)View of the Thames shoreline before the Albert Embankment was built (1866-69)

London’s Great Stink (1858)

John Leech (cartoonist)Punch (July 3, 1858)

Father Thames introducing “cholera,” “scropula,” and

“diphtheria” as his “offspring”

Edmund Cooper Map of the Broad Street cholera epidemic (September 1854)made for the Metropolitan Commission of Sewers

https://youtu.be/Pq32LB8j2K8

John SnowMap of Cholera Outbreak near the Broad Street Pump (1854)

"The Thames Embankment,” The Illustrated London News (4 February 1865)Victoria Embankment under construction in 1865

J. BasireReport from Commissioners…For Improvements in Westminster (1808)

J. H. TaylorA Plan of the Streets… in Westminster (1828)

1808

1828

Ordnance Survey Topographic Map (1868)

B. R. DaviesLondon and its Environs (1847)

Ordnance Survey Topographic Map (1868)

B. R. DaviesLondon and its Environs (1841)

B. R. DaviesLondon and its Environs (1841)

Charles BoothDescriptive Map of London Poverty from Life and Labour of the People in London (1889)

Charles BoothDescriptive Map of London Poverty from Life and Labour of the People in London (1889)