The slideshow above shows the forty plates from the third volume of Ackermann’s Microcosm of London (1808-10). The titles of the plates are listed below. All bar one of these images are taken from a copy of the Microcosm owned by the Lewis Walpole Library and are used with permission. The second image from the volume, of the Royal Circus, was kindly provided by the Bishopsgate Institute, who have their own display of Microcosm images from their copy available here.
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The Microcosm is introduced here and the plates can be seen mapped onto Horwood’s Plan here.
- Queen’s Palace, St James’s Park
- Royal Circus
- Royal Exchange
- Royal Institution, Albermarle Street
- Sadler’s Wells Theatre
- Session House, Clerkenwell
- Society for the Encouragement of Arts &c., Adelphi
- Society of Agriculture, [32 Sackville Street]
- Somerset House, Strand
- Stamp Office, Somerset House
- New Stock Exchange
- Drawing Room, St James’s
- St Luke’s Hospital
- St Margaret’s, Westminster
- St Martin-in-the-Fields
- St Paul’s Cathedral
- Surrey Institution
- Synagogue, Duke’s Place, Houndsditch
- Tattersall’s Horse Repository
- Temple Church
- View of the Tower
- Horse Armoury, Tower
- Board of Trade
- Trinity House
- Vauxhall Gardens
- St Stephen’s, Walbrook
- Watch House, St Mary Le Bone
- West India Docks
- Westminster Abbey
- Westminster Hall
- Whitehall
- Workhouse, St James’s Parish
- Greenwich Hospital, The Painted Hall
- Chelsea Hospital
- Military College, Chelsea
- New Covent Garden Theatre
- South Sea House, Dividend Hall
- Excise Office, Broad Street
- View of Westminster Hall and Bridge
- A View of London from the Thames, taken opposite the Adelphi