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London [bird's-eye view] – Antique Wall Map

London [bird's-eye view], [no date recorded on caption card] — antique engraving
London [bird's-eye view], [no date recorded on caption card]. Antique engraving from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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London [bird's-eye view] comes to life in this antique engraving, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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This engraving presents London from a high, bird's-eye vantage, so the viewer takes in the whole city at once rather than a single street or building. Views like this were a popular way to record a growing capital, with engravers packing rooftops, church spires, and the winding course of the Thames into one sweeping scene. The record gives no date, so the exact moment depicted is uncertain, but panoramas of this kind were widely produced in Europe from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries. Comparing the buildings and landmarks shown with known structures is one way researchers narrow down when it was made.

Created / published[no date recorded on caption card]
Medium1 print : engraving.
NotesThis record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,048 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-145165

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