City of London School.
The View of the Building erecting under their Superintendance is respectfully dedicated by their obedt. Hble. Servt. J.B. Bunning Archt.
London,
G.E. Madeley, 3 Wellington St, Strand,
[c.1837].
Lithograph with original colour, trimmed to text, false margin to lower neatline.
Image: 340 by 480mm (13.5 by 19 inches). Sheet: 420 by 515mm (16.5 by 20.25 inches).
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notes:
City of London Boys' School grew out of a fifteenth century bequest left to educate sons of London citizens. In 1823, the Corporation of the City decided that the excess income from the bequest should be used to found a permanent school. The original site, shown here, was in Milk Street near Cheapside, designed by James Bunstone Bunning and completed in 1837. The school was unusual in that it accepted non-Anglican and Jewish pupils, and was a day rather than boarding school...
bibliography:
BM 1880,1113.3558.