A View of London Bridge taken near St. Olave's Stairs

by John Boydell

$250 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

A fine image of London's most famous bridge from Boydell's series of plates Collection of One Hundred Views in England and Wales, published in 1770. Built on the site of a wooden bridge constructed by the Romans after AD43, the stone London Bridge of Boydell's day was erected in 1176. In between its north and south towers were numerous shops and houses, the rents of which went towards maintaining the bridge. They were later removed as the result of an Act of Parliament instituted in 1756.

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