Engraving Gallery

Old St Pauls N110249

ST PAUL'S CATHEDRAL, St Paul's Churchyard, City of London. View of the interior of the Choir of the old cathedral before the fire of 1666. Line engraving from "Les delices de la Grand Bretagne..." by James Beeverell 1707. From the Mayson Beeton Collection

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Cathedral, Engraving, Religion, Stuart

Temple Bar demolition N110163

MAYSON BEETON COLLECTION. Temple Bar, City of London. "The last of Temple Bar - sketched on Saturday January 12, 1878". Showing the steam-powered crane being used to help dismantle the stonework. This incarnation of Temple Bar (the gate between the Cities of London and Westminster) was constructed by Sir Christopher Wren in 1672. It was removed in order to widen the road. A reconstruction using much of the original stonework can now be seen at Paternoster Square. Woodcut engraving

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Marriage of Princess Anne to William Prince of Orange N110049

MAYSON BEETON COLLECTION. St James Palace, London 1733. The Chapel Royal at St James on the occasion of the marriage of Princess Anne to William Prince of Orange. Coloured engraving from the Mayson Beeton Collection. Date of marriage 25th March 1734, so compiler of Mayson Beeton Collection got their dates wrong (6A_JAM_1733_M). Anne (1709-1759) was Princess Royal, eldest daughter of George II. William IV of Orange (1711-1751) was son of John William Friso, who succeeded his cousin William III as Prince of Orange. William IV became the first hereditary stadtholder of the Netherlands

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