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THE CITY ON THE THAMES

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Copyright 2020 Simon Jenkins

First Pegasus Books cloth edition September 2020

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ISBN: 978-1-64313-552-6

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Imagery: Paintings by Canaletto / Bridgeman Images

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For Hannah

1. . Reconstructed view of Roman London, c.120, by Peter Froste. Peter Froste/Museum of London
2. . Fragment of Roman wall at Coopers Row, City of London. Stephanie Wolff
3. . The Chapel of St John the Evangelist, Tower of London. Historic Royal Palaces
4. . Reconstructed view of Westminster Hall, 1098, by Peter Jackson. Look and Learn/Peter Jackson Collection/Bridgeman Images
5. . Dick Whittington, seventeenth-century engraving by Renold Elstrack. Granger/Bridgeman Images
6. . The Tower of London and London Bridge, miniature from Poems by Charles, Duke of Orlans, c.1500. British Library, London. British Library Board. All Rights Reserved/Bridgeman Images
7. . The coronation procession of Edward VI, 1547, eighteenth-century copy of a mural at Cowdray House by Samuel Hieronymous Grimm. Society of Antiquaries of London/Bridgeman Images
8. . Reconstructed view of Nonsuch House on old London Bridge, 1577, by an anonymous nineteenth-century artist. Chronicle/Alamy
9. . Staple Inn, Holborn, photograph, c.1890. Science & Society Picture Library/Getty Images
10. . Eastcheap meat market, 1598, illustration from A Caveatt for the Citty of London by Hugh Alley. Used by permission of the Folger Shakespeare Library
11. . Sir Thomas Gresham, c.156065, portrait by Anthonis Mor. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
12. . The Globe Theatre, detail from Claes Jansz Visschers Panorama of London, 1616. Granger/Bridgeman Images
13. . View of the River Thames, with London Bridge and the Tower of London, detail from Claes Jansz Visschers Londinium Florentissima Britanniae, 1650. British Library, London. British Library Board. All Rights Reserved/Bridgeman Images
14. . The Thames at Westminster Stairs, 1631, by Claude de Jongh, showing the new Banqueting Hall, Westminster Hall and Abbey
15. . Vertues 1738 plan of the fortifications built during the Civil War in 1642. British Library, London. British Library Board. All Rights Reserved/Bridgeman Images
16. . Samuel Pepys, c.1689, portrait by Geoffrey Kneller. Royal Society of Arts, London. Ian Dagnall/Alamy
17. . The Great Fire of London, with Ludgate and Old Saint Pauls, c.1670, by an anonymous artist. Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
18. . Sir Christopher Wren, portrait by an anonymous eighteenth-century artist. Private collection. Bridgeman Images
19. . Sir Christopher Wren, A Plan of the City of London after the Great Fire, 1724, late eighteenth-century copy engraved by P. Fourdrinier. Picture Art Collection/Alamy
20. . John Evelyn, Plan for the Rebuilding of the City of London after the Great Fire, late eighteenth-century, engraving in Walter Harrison, A New and Universal History, 1776. Antiqua/Alamy

1. . The Frozen Thames, 1677, by Abraham Hondius. Museum of London
2. . Whitehall from St Jamess Park with Charles II, Prince Rupert and Coldstream Guards, c.1680, by Hendrick Danckerts. Crown Copyright: UK Government Art Collection
3. . Covent Garden, c.177180, by John Collett. Museum of London. Bridgeman Images
4. . St Jamess Square, illustration from John Stows Survey of London, 1754. Private collection. The Stapleton Collection/Bridgeman Images
5. . Hanover Square, 1769, by Elias Martin. Private collection
6. . Seven Dials, Covent Garden, c.1787, by William Hodges and Julius Caesar Ibbotson. Private collection. PhotoPeter Nahum at The Leicester Galleries, London/Bridgeman Images
7. . The Thames on Lord Mayors Day, c.1747, by Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal). Lobkowicz Palace, Prague Castle. Bridgeman Images
8. . The Royal Exchange, 1788, print after an original painting by Philippe-Jacques De Loutherbourg. Museum of London
9. . Gin Lane, engraving by William Hogarth, 1751. Alamy
10. . William Hogarth, 1735, self-portrait. Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
11. . St Marylebone watch house, 1810, illustration by Thomas Rowlandson and Auguste Charles Pugin from The Microcosm of London, vol. III. Alamy
12. . East India Docks, c.1808, by William Daniell. London Metropolitan Archives, City of London. Bridgeman Images
13. . Beau Brummell, 1805, portrait by Robert Dighton. Private collection. Bridgeman Images
14. . John Nash, 1827, portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence. By kind permission of Jesus College, Oxford
15. . Cumberland Terrace and Chester Terrace, 1831, detail from an illustration by Richard Morris for A Panoramic View Round the Regents Park. London Metropolitan Archives, City of London. Bridgeman Images
16. . London Going out of Town, or the March of Bricks and Mortar, 1829, satirical print by George Cruikshank. Private collection. The Stapleton Collection/Bridgeman Images
17. . View of Belgrave Square Seen from No. 6 Grosvenor Place, London, c.1820, watercolour by Lady Emily Drummond. Private collection. Charles Plante Fine Arts/Bridgeman Images
18. . Thomas Cubitt, 1840, portrait by an anonymous artist. National Portrait Gallery, London

1. . View of the Destruction of Both Houses of Parliament, 16 October 1834, print by an anonymous nineteenth-century artist. Private collection. Look and Learn/Peter Jackson Collection/Bridgeman Images
2. . View of Buckingham Palace and Marble Arch, 1835, watercolour by John Bucker. Royal Collection Trust. Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, 2019/Bridgeman Images