Paintings, Prints & Drawings — 1830
Fleet Market, from Holborn Bridge/now removed
This engraving depicts Fleet Market, a meat and vegetable market, looking towards Fleet Street. It was built by George Dance senior 1734-7 on the bridge erected over the Fleet Ditch.The market was later removed to make way for Farringdon Road in 1826-30.
This image represented plate 50 of 'London and its Environments in the Nineteenth Century' illustrated by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd (1792-1864).
The publishers described the work as a 'brief General History of the Metropolis from the earliest period....as well as a description of each particular building and object worthy of notice; so as to present together the only Complete Historical, Topographical, and Graphic Illustration of the First City in the World, brought down to the present day'.
- Category:
- Paintings, Prints & Drawings
- Object ID:
- Z9058
- Object name:
- Fleet Market, from Holborn Bridge/now removed
- Artist/Maker:
- Shepherd, Thomas Hosmer
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- Production date:
- 1830
- Material:
card, paper, ink
- Measurements/duration:
- H 127 mm, W 179 mm (paper)
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- Record quality:
- 100%
- Part of this object:
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- Owner Status & Credit:
Permanent collection
- Copyright holder:
digital image © London Museum
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