Art & Design
Explore objects, stories and blogs relating to art and design from – and about – London.
Blogs-And-Stories
A walk through 1920s London
George Davison Reid’s years-long photography project shows us London between two world wars
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
Locket portraits of London’s container shipping crews
Artist Hilary Powell illuminates the invisible lives of the international shipping industry
A panoramic history of London
These artworks stretched the limits of perspective to show London in all its glory
Preserving a London Fields squat in the 1990s
Tom Hunter’s detailed model of his Hackney neighbourhood helped save it from demolition
London’s artists, illustrators & makers
The talent fueling the fire of this creative capital
Office life in the 1980s
Anna Fox’s photographs pick out the mundane and the sinister in the aspirational 1980s workplace
Picture Post believed in the power of photography
This London-based magazine pioneered photojournalism in the mid-20th century
London through the eyes of Wolfgang Suschitzky
The grit and glamour of life in the mid-20th century, captured by one of the era’s key photographers
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
