Select Views (1816) – Plates Slideshow (Eastern Division)

The slideshow above shows the plates displaying the eastern division of the metropolis from the 1816 collection Select Views of London, published by Rudolph Ackermann with a text by John Buonarotti Papworth.  These plates can also be seen mapped onto Horwood’s Plan.  The western division can be viewed here.

  1. View of Cornhill, Lombard Street & Mansion House
  2. Guildhall
  3. South View of the Bank
  4. Bank of England, from Lothbury
  5. Interior View of the Bank
  6. Royal Exchange
  7. A North View of the India House, Leadenhall Street
  8. St. Paul’s Cathedral, West Front
  9. St. Stephen’s Church, Walbrook
  10. Christ Church, Spitalfields
  11. St. Leonard Shoreditch
  12. View of St. Dunstan’s Church, Fleet Street
  13. Town Hall, Southwark
  14. The Hall of the Auction Mart
  15. Auction Mart Coffee Room
  16. London Commercial Sale Rooms, Mark Lane
  17. Cheapside
  18. Mercer’s Hall
  19. Ironmonger Hall
  20. Bridge Street, Blackfriars
  21. Blackfriars Bridge, from the Strand Bridge
  22. View of London Bridge
  23. The New Custom House
  24. The Monument
  25. Lunatic Hospital of St. Luke’s
  26. The Old Bailey
  27. Cold Bath Fields Prison