Paintings, Prints & Drawings
The art collection consists of around 25,000 paintings, prints and drawings showcasing a visual encyclopedia of London.
Blogs-And-Stories
What was the Cheapside Cross?
A monument to a queen – and a point of religious conflict
What were London’s turnpikes?
In the 1700s and 1800s, travelling on London’s main roads came with a cost
The Rhinebeck Panorama: A game-changing view
Found in a barrel in 1941, this vast panorama shows the awesome spread of London in 1806
The Prévost Panorama: See London in 1815
An epic six-metre-long painting shows us a very different view from Westminster
A panoramic history of London
These artworks stretched the limits of perspective to show London in all its glory
Hailing the history of London’s black cabs
The must-have knowledge on the city’s iconic taxis
The 7/7 London bombings, 2005
On 7 July 2005, 52 people were killed by terrorists targeting London’s transport network
A thousand years of Billingsgate Market
The prize catch of London’s fish trade, home to a unique culture and generations of working history
The Cato Street Conspiracy: A failed revolution
This 1820 plot to kill the cabinet ended at the Newgate Prison gallows
Borough Market: London's oldest food-trading hub
Borough Market has drawn food enthusiasts to its stalls for around a thousand years
Lost London buildings by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd
London’s buildings were this artist’s speciality in the 1800s, letting us see landmarks lost to time
William Hogarth painted London behaving badly
The artist’s wildly popular pictures from the 1700s show a rowdy version of urban life
Colourful prints of lost East End shops
Look again at the greengrocers, delis and butchers that have disappeared from our streets
St James’s Park: Royal playground & wildlife haven
The park surrounded by palaces – and home to a colony of pelicans
When London was swept up in balloon mania
Balloon ascents were all the rage in the late 1700s and 1800s
