Apothecaries' Hall, Pilgrim Street, Blackfriars

Apothecaries’ Hall on Blackfriars Lane is the oldest extant livery hall in the City of London. After the first building was destroyed in the Great Fire of London, a replacement was built in 1670 to the design of Edward Jerman. Thomas Hosmer Shepherd’s view from the courtyard shows the Hall after it underwent restoration and external building in the 1780s. Despite undergoing further redevelopment in the 1980s, Apothecaries’ Hall today still looks much as it did when Shepherd drew it. This work was engraved for the artist’s book ‘London in the Nineteenth Century’, 1831.