These landscapes date from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries. They were purchased to decorate the Bank of England’s parlours. Together, they show how London’s landscape changed from the reign of Charles I to that of Queen Victoria.

Thomas Wyck, Whitehall and St. James’ Park, c.1649, 0590

Jan Griffier, Covent Garden, c.1710, 1137

Peter Tillemans, London from Greenwich Park, c.1720, 0576(i)

Joseph Van Aken, The Old Stocks Market, c.1735, 0363

Antonio Joli, Westminster from the River, c.1746, 0587

Samuel Scott, The Building of Westminster Bridge, 1749, 0589

Herbert Pugh, London Bridge from the Old Swan, c.1765, 0366

Daniel Turner, Westminster Bridge and Abbey, c.1790, 0588

Daniel Turner, The Thames at London Bridge, c.1790, 1346

Charles Deane, Waterloo Bridge and the Thames from Westminster, 1821, 0585

Thomas Hastings, Hampstead Ponds, 1800s, 1141

Edmund John Niemann, Waterloo Bridge from the West, c.1860, 1382. Henry Dawson, The Pool of London, c.1870, 0583.
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