London Prints

7x9 cm

Temple Bar.
Drawn & Engraved by W.Wallis for the Walks through London.
Published by W.Clarke New Bond Street, October.1.1816.

Originally marking the western extent of the City of London, the stone gateway, built between 1669 and 1672, was commissioned by King Charles II and designed by Sir Christopher Wren. Now reconstructed at the entrance to the Paternoster Square redevelopment.
Copper engraving published in Walks through London, including Westminster and the Borough of Southwark with the surrounding suburbs...by David Hughson, L.L.D....London Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1817.