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View of the Building in Leicester Square, Designed to Contain Mr. Wyld's Great Model of the Earth.
[n.d., c.1855.]
Tinted lithograph, image 170 x 265mm. 6¾ x 10½". Framed. Unexamined out of frame.
"Wyld's Monster Globe"; James Wyld's Great Globe, a huge model of the earth's surface was constructed, to the designs of H.R. Abraham, in Leicester Square 1851.
[Ref: 12440] £230.00
(£276.00 incl.VAT)
View of the Building in Leicester Square, Designed to Contain Mr. Wyld's Great Model of the Earth. Henry Robert Abraham, Arch.t Norfolk Street, Strand
E. Walker del. T. Picken lith. Day & Son, lith.rs to the Queen
[n.d., c.1855.]
Tinted lithograph, sheet 320 x 455mm (12½ x 18"). Rare.
Building erected in Leicester Square, London, to exhibit the 'great globe' by cartographer and geographical publisher James Wyld the younger (1812-87). Inside the speherical building, painted plaster of Paris reliefs illustrated the physical features of the earth at a horizontal scale of one inch to ten miles and a vertical scale of three inches to ten miles. Maps, atlases, and other globes (inevitably mostly Wyld's own) were also displayed, with access to the building via four loggias opening into each side of the square. The globe was exhibited between 1851 and 1861 to coincide with the Great Exhibition. For smaller version of this image see ref. 12440.
[Ref: 44017] £180.00
(£216.00 incl.VAT)
London Bridge, from above Bridge.
E.Walker Del. W.Simpson Lith. Day & Son Lith.rs to the Queen.
London, Published May 1st 1852 by Mess.rs Lloyd, Brothers & Co. 22 Ludgate Hill.
Tinted lithograph. 265 x 410mm. Faint outline from old mount.
[Ref: 8137] £750.00
The Treasury, Whitehall.
E. Walker, Del et Lith. Day & Son, Lithrs. to the Queen.
London, Published May 1st 1852, by Mess.rs Lloyd Brothers & Co. 22 Ludgate Hill.
Hand coloured lithograph, image 305 x 400mm. 12 x 15¾". Faint browning to paper.
View of the then new Treasury Offices at Whitehall, as designed by architect Sir Charles Barry (1795 – 1860) in 1846-47; horse-drawn carriages passing along the street, two figures ride horseback in the foreground, a horse feeds by the roadside, and pedestrians stroll along the pavement. From a series of views of famous London buildings by Edmund Walker (1850 - 1856; fl.); Abbey describes a folio of 12 titled 'Views of the Principal Buildings in London'. See Abbey Scenery 247, 2.
[Ref: 20580] £550.00
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