Title
THE GREAT FIRE OF LONDON in the Year 1666. / From the Original Picture in the Possession of Robert Golden Esqr. Painted by Old Griffier at the time of the Fire. The Scene is the Original Ludgate taken at the instant of time when the Walls of the Goal adjoining it fell and exhibited to the View Old St Pauls Church just taking fire, and Old Bow Church in the background. / Engrav'd and Publish'd by W. Birch, Enamel Painter, No, 2, Macclesfield Street, Soho.
Creator
Birch, William Russell, 1755-1834, printmaker, publisher.
Publication details
[London] : Engrav'd and Publish'd by W. Birch, Enamel Painter, No, 2, Macclesfield Street, Soho., Decr. 1st. 1792.
Physical details
1 print : etching and aquatint with hand-colouring ; sheet 21.2 x 32.7 cm
Description
View of the Fire of London: a man running with arms flung out, down the street from Ludgate, a castellated gateway on the left which is in flames, a man amongst the rubble of the adjoining jail on the right, which has fallen to reveal old St Paul's and old Bow Church in the background, with a couple loading a horse-drawn cart with bundles of clothes and a baby lying waiting in a cradle on the ground, in the foreground; after Griffier. Lettered Vide Pennant's London" lower right. Signed by Griffier within image on rubble right. Copy at Maps K.Top.21.65b lettered "Proof"."
Place
London (England)
Other persons
Griffier, Jan, -1718, artist.
Shelfmark
Maps K.Top.21.65.b.