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Streets 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…
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