Billingsgate Market 1808

Billingsgate Market 1808Billingsgate Market. Coloured aquatint. General view, from the north, of Billingsgate Quay with stalls. In foreground there is a crowd of streetsellers and larger retailers. Loaded donkeys can be seen on the right. Published in R. Ackermann's 'The Microcosm of London' Vol. I.

It tells the story of Britain's exploitation and oppression of its subject peoples in its colonies

Old Swan Pier

Albumen print taken for the London Stereoscopic Society

Measures 17cm x 15cm x 16cm

the Oxonian

Hogarth contrasts the repectable behaviour and appearance of the French community with the disorderliness of the natives on the other side of the street

protected beneath the solid dome of St Paul's Cathedral

Viewed from the nave

Arthur Watts' colourful watercolour shows a roundabout on Hampstead Heath

Nevinson followed the imagery rather than the theoretical ideas of his Italian counterparts

Lichtenstein spent five years exploring this unique environment

singers and other members of society