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  • Academies

    These paintings hang in the Court Room of the Foundling Hospital, together with views of (...)

  • The Royal Institution

    The Royal Institution of Great Britain was founded in London in 1799 as an ’institution for (...)

  • Panorama

    Norden’s Panorama
    Baker’s London Panorama
    Girtin’s panorama
    Girtin’s panorama - Animations (...)

  • Wide angle

    The field of vision broadens towards wide angle views.
    Paul and Thomas Sandby, View from the (...)

  • Perspective

    Oblique perspective
    Height of spectator viewpoint
    Beer Street and Gin Lane
    Beer Street (...)

  • Companion pictures

    To suggest the multiple perspectives of a cityscape , some paintings were planned as pairs (...)

  • Framing effects

    Camera obscura
    The Thames seen through an Arch of Westminster Bridge
    Westminster Bridge (...)

31 sections

  • London

    Maps Literature Architecture Music in London Society Artists’ London

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  • Maps of London

    Eighteenth-century maps of London
    John Rocque’s map (1746)
    John Bowles’s map (1764) (...)

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  • Literature in London

    The Pen and the City
    London appears in various ways in eighteenth-century literature:
    a (...)

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  • Architecture

    The grammar of styles
    Bridges
    Palaces
    Squares
    Gardens
    Regency streets
    London (...)

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  • Music in London

    Instrumental Music Music in the public gardens Music for the Foundling (...)

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  • London society

    Population
    Trade
    Religion
    Hospitals
    Crime
    Clubs
    Theatres
    Fairs
    On society (...)

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  • Artists’ London

    The world of art in London The painters’view of LondonLondonCulture

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  • Smollett

    Smollett’s Humphry Clinker: London Context in Humphry ClinkerHumphry Clinker in Bath (...)

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