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Description: | Looking southwest, this panoramic view of the City is taken from a 'small and rather precarious balcony' on the top floor of Cromwell Tower on the Barbican Estate.
Although afraid of heights, Richard Walker strapped himself, his equipment and his 'ominously-flapping canvas' to the balcony in order to paint on the spot.
The lower half of Walker's oil painting shows the Barbican Estate. Shakespeare Tower is on the right, with the church of St Giles Cripplegate in the bottom left corner.
Above the church tower to the right, Bastion House stands next to the Museum of London's pitched glass roof. The Thames is visible beyond the dome of St Paul's Cathedral. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Museum of London | Rights holder: | Richard I. B. Walker | Subjects: | Public services Cityscape Art and Design | Temporal: | 1977 | Source: | Museum of London | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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