Agas (Ralph) London and Westminster in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth Anno Dom. 1563, bird’s-eye plan/view of the Thames from Westminster Abbey to just beyond the Tower, the largest and considered the best of several derivatives of George Vertue’s ‘Civitas Londinum A.no D.ni Circiter MDLX’, published for the Society of Antiquaries in 1737, itself based on the anonymous woodcut plan, attributed to Ralph Agas, from around 1633, this plan shows the solitary London Bridge with all its buildings, St Paul’s without the spire destroyed in a storm two years before, Shakespeare’s Globe theatre and the nearby bear or bull baiting arena are shown in the foreground area of market gardens on the South Bank, engraving with hand-colouring, on 2 joined sheets, 410 x 1035 mm (16 1/8 x 40 3/4 in), pale even browning with marginal exposure line, surface wear and some splitting along old vertical folds, one or two small marginal losses outside the plate, J. Wallis, 1789.
Agas (Ralph) London and Westminster in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth Anno Dom. 1563, bird’s-eye plan/view of the Thames from Westminster Abbey to just beyond the Tower, the largest and considered the best of several derivatives of George Vertue’s ‘Civitas Londinum A.no D.ni Circiter MDLX’, published for the Society of Antiquaries in 1737, itself based on the anonymous woodcut plan, attributed to Ralph Agas, from around 1633, this plan shows the solitary London Bridge with all its buildings, St Paul’s without the spire destroyed in a storm two years before, Shakespeare’s Globe theatre and the nearby bear or bull baiting arena are shown in the foreground area of market gardens on the South Bank, engraving with hand-colouring, on 2 joined sheets, 410 x 1035 mm (16 1/8 x 40 3/4 in), pale even browning with marginal exposure line, surface wear and some splitting along old vertical folds, one or two small marginal losses outside the plate, J. Wallis, 1789.
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