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Cattle Market, Smithfield.

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REEVE, R[ichard]. G[ilson]. after POLLARD, James
Liondon,
Published by Tho.s McLean, 26 Haymarket,
1831
Engraving and etching with aquatint, fine original hand-colour.
Image: 470 by 690mm (18.5 by 27.25 inches). Sheet: 542 by 785mm (21.25 by 31 inches).
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View over Smithfield Market, looking towards Giltspur Street; sheep in pens in square, cattle surrounding pens, men milling amongst livestock; a bull attacks a man who has fallen in foreground.

Smithfield was originally established as a market site in about AD 950 in a field immediately outside the gates in the London Wall. It was paved for the first time in 1614.

The Yeomen of the Guard, founded by Henry VII at the beginning of his reign in 1485 to ac...

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bibliography:

Siltzer, Frank, The story of British sporting prints, London, 1929, p.220; Crace, John Gregory, A Catalogue of Maps, Plans and Views of London, Westminster and Southwark, collected and arranged by Frederick Crace, 1878 XXVI.72; Velton, Hannah, 'Beastly London: A History of Animals in the City', Reaktion Books, London, 2013 pp.14-16.

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