An antique etching by Wenceslaus Hollar. Circa 1647. View across fields looking towards Westminster Abbey, at mid-distance a summer house enclosed by bushes, Westminster Hall and part of the parliament buildings on the right, and farther to right the church of "St Paul in London.
Print by Abraham Aubry after Wenceslaus Hollar, published in "Wenceslaus Hollar and his Views of London and Windsor in the seventeenth century" an invaluable catalogue of Hollar's maps and views of London, from both before and after the Great Fire. Residue of old glue on the back and wrinkling of surface of print.
Approx 16.5cms by 8.5cms.
