The slideshow above shows the thirty-two plates from the second volume of Ackermann’s Microcosm of London (1808-10). The titles of the plates are listed below. These images are taken from a copy of the Microcosm owned by the Lewis Walpole Library and are used with permission.
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The Microcosm is introduced here and the plates can be seen mapped onto Horwood’s Plan here.
- Corn Exchange, Mark Lane
- Exhibition of Water Coloured Drawings, Old Bond Street
- Fire in London
- Fleet Prison
- Foundling Hospital, The Chapel
- Freemasons Hall, Great Queen Street
- Great Subscription Room at Brooks’s, St James’s Street
- Guildhall
- Guildhall, Examination of a Bankrupt before his Creditors
- Common Council Chamber, Guildhall
- Heralds College, The Hall
- Hospital, Middlesex
- India House, The Sale Room
- King’s Bench Prison
- King’s Mews, Charing Cross
- Lambeth Palace
- Lloyd’s Subscription Rooms
- Leaden Hall Market
- Egyptian Hall, Mansion House
- House of Lords
- Lottery Drawing, Coopers’ Hall
- Magdalen Chapel [part of the Magdalen Hospital]
- The Mint
- Mounting Guard, St James’s Park
- Newgate Chapel [at Newgate Prison]
- Old Bailey
- Opera House
- Pantheon Masquerade
- Philanthropic Society, The Chapel
- Pillory, Charing Cross
- The Post Office
- Quakers Meeting