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Description: | Colour lithograph . This view of ‘Blackfriars from Southwark Bridge’ by Thomas Shotter Boys was published in 1842 as part of ‘Original Views of London As It Is’, his most successful volume. The volume included ‘Historical and Descriptive Notices of the Views’, written by the publisher, writer and editor Charles Ollier (1788-1859). Ollier’s text on this image begins:
‘How striking a combination is here presented of smoky manufacturies, wharfs, barges laden with merchandise, bridges (for more than one is seen), proud structures, church steeples, and, towering above all in colossal grandeur, the majestic and graceful edifice of St. Paul’s. From no point of view can a more advantageous prospect of this vast cathedral be obtained than is afforded by Southwark Bridge, on which the spectator of the present scene is supposed to stand. Not only are its circular colonnade, its dome, its pinnacle and cross, and its western towers, plainly brought before the eye in bold relief, but also the entire upper range of its southern façade. | Subjects: | topography spire church cathedral house bridge (urban) sailboat chimney townscape/cityscape smoke river | Temporal: | 1842 | Source: | Government Art Collection | Creator: | Thomas Shotter Boys | Identifier: | http://www.gac.culture.gov.uk/work.aspx?... | Go to resource |
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