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Promenade Dresses circa 1810 to 1820 – London Fashion Designs – Page 3
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Read MoreStreets of London – Auction Mart Coffee Room circa 1811
“The present plate exhibits a view of the Coffee-Room, which is well proportioned, and has a very cheerful appearance, though built on a very narrow and gloomy piece of ground. It has two ranges of columns, with corresponding pilasters in imitation of granite, forming a sort of gallery lighted from above. There are two entrances,…
Read MoreStreets of London – Auction Mart, Bartholomew Lane circa 1811
“The project of this useful undertaking originated with Mr. Shuttleworth, one of its present directors. The fund requisite for carrying this plan into execution, was raised by subscription. The first stone of the structure appropriated to the objects which it embraces, was laid by the Lord Mayor, on the 20th of September, 1808, and it…
Read MoreStreets of London – Bank of England circa 1809
“The annexed engraving exhibits a view of that part of the Bank of England which faces Lothbury, and it affords a good idea of the great extent of the building appropriated to this national establishment. It forms a portion of the considerable additions, that have lately been made to this edifice, and that have only…
Read MoreStreets of London – Lansdowne House, Berkeley Square, London 1811
“The site of Lansdowne House and gardens, which occupy the whole of the south side of Berkeley-square, was formerly a piece of waste ground, generally covered by a pool of dirty water than ran down from Curzon-street and its vicinity. This spot was purchased, in 1762, by the Earl of Bute. After draining and raising…
Read MoreStreets of London – Whitehall, London circa 1811
“Perhaps no part of the British metropolis has within these few years received greater improvements than they environs of Whitehall; and though they are principally conspicuous at the southern extremity of this former seat of royalty, yet its immediate vicinity to the northward has not been neglected. It is this that is exhibited in the…
Read MoreStreets of London – Charing Cross at Strand circa 1811
London Antique Furniture and Clothes Fabric Swatches circa 1811 – Page 2
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