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Description: | Print. Sketches in London in 1851 / J Williamson, Sc. ; Printed and Published by William Little. Supplement to the Illustrated London News, 23 August 1851. Engraving, size cA1-A0. The central panel shows a crowded City by the Stock Exchange, traffic including an omnibus overflowing with passengers to the Great Exhibition; top, Blackfriars bridge? with Pickfords and other congested road transport, the Thames below has congestion of river traffic mainly passenger paddle steamers; left, scene at Hyde Park Corner; right, visitors in Kensington Gardens; corners, decorated roundels commemorating science, commerce, arts, manufactures (textiles) | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Subjects: | print | Temporal: | 1851 | Source: | Science Museum | Creator: | Little, William | Identifier: | 2001-638 | Go to resource |
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