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

The slideshow above shows the plates displaying the western 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 eastern division can be viewed here.

  1. St. James’s Palace
  2. Carleton House
  3. Carlton House
  4. The Staircase at Carlton House
  5. The Conservatory at Carlton House
  6. Warwick House the residence of Her Royal highness Princess Charlotte of Wales
  7. View of the Bridge & Pagoda, St James’s Park, Erected for the Grand Jubilee, In Celebration of the Peace, Under the Direction of Sir Wm Congreve Bart
  8. View of the Temple of Concord, in the Green Park, Erected for the Grand Jubilee, In Celebration of the Peace, Under the Direction of Sir Wm Congreve Bart
  9. The Bason in the Green Park, St. James’s
  10. St. Stephen’s Chapel & Speaker’s House, from Westminster Bridge
  11. Westminster Abbey & St. Margaret’s
  12. St. John’s Church Westminster, from the river
  13. St. Martin’s in the Fields
  14. St. Clement Danes
  15. St. James’s Square
  16. North Side of Grosvenor Square
  17. Berkeley Square
  18. Lansdowne House, Berkeley Square
  19. Portman Square, North Side
  20. Manchester Square, North Side
  21. Cavendish Square, North Side
  22. George Street, Hanover Sqre.
  23. Soho Square
  24. Leicester Square from Leicester Place
  25. Lincoln’s Inn Fields, coming in from Gt. Queen Street
  26. Queen Square
  27. New Drury Lane Theatre
  28. Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, from Bow Street
  29. Saloon to the Private Boxes, Covent Garden Theatre
  30. Montague House – now the British Museum
  31. British Museum, New Building
  32. Somerset House and the New Church Strand, taken from the Morning Post office
  33. The Hall at the Royal Academy, Sommerset House
  34. Russell Institution, Great Coram Street
  35. The Pantheon
  36. Bullock’s Museum, Piccadilly
  37. Bullock’s Museum, 22 Piccadilly
  38. The Banqueting House
  39. Whitehall Chapel
  40. Whitehall Yard
  41. A View of Whitehall & the Horse Guards
  42. Charing Cross, looking up the Strand
  43. Buckingham Stairs Water Gate, from the River
  44. Royal Menagerie, Exeter Change, Strand
  45. Portland Place
  46. Oxford Street, & Entrance into Stratford Place
  47. Tyburn Turnpike
  48. View of Piccadilly, from Hyde Park Corner Turnpike
  49. Tottenham Court Road Turnpike & St. James’s Chapel