London’s Burning

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Incendio della Gran Città di Londra Metropoli del Regno d'Inghilterra Succæsso adi 21 di Settembre 1666. Dal Quale in 4 Giorni Fu Abbrucciata la Piu Gran Pares con Danno Inèstimabile.

GUALDO PRIORATO, [Galeazzo]
[Italy,
c1675].
Copper engraving, printed on two sheets, joined.
Image: 310 by 905mm (12.25 by 35.75 inches). Sheet: 315 by 915mm (12.5 by 36 inches).
12487

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notes:

notes:

An unusual prospect of London during the fire, showing the Norman St Paul's Cathedral in flames, and viewed from Southwark with the Globe and Swan theatres in the foreground, and severed heads raised on poles over the gate to London Bridge.

Scouloudi records this as a variant of Visscher's view, and dates it around 1666, citing the Fire. However, Hyde notes that the print appears in Galeazzo Gualdo Priorato's 'Historia Leopoldo Cesare', published in three volumes...

bibliography:

bibliography:

BM 1872,0113.591; BM 1880,1113.1171; Ralph Hyde, private notes; Scouloudi, p.35.

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