These paintings hang in the Court Room of the Foundling Hospital, together with views of (...)
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Academies 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 (...)Oblique views and shadows Hogarth
The cone of vision
A master’s secrets
Canaletto’s choice of lighting
Light and (...)Depth of field and variations on the viewpoint [#1
The drawing shows the dome of St Paul’s with the horizontal lines in the drum of the (...)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 (...)Literary and artistic societies Sir Joshua Reynolds
From left to right: Boswell, Dr Johnson, Reynolds, Garrick, Burke, Paoli, (...)
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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)
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Literature in London The Pen and the City
London appears in various ways in eighteenth-century literature:
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Architecture The grammar of styles
Bridges
Palaces
Squares
Gardens
Regency streets
London (...)--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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
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Fairs
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Artists’ London The world of art in London The painters’view of LondonLondonCulture
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Rocque’s map of London (1746) Rocque’s map of London
Rocque’s map of London
The ’proposals’ for John Rocque’s map asserted that (...)--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Smollett Smollett’s Humphry Clinker: London Context in Humphry ClinkerHumphry Clinker in Bath (...)
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