A survey of the cities of London and Westminster and the Borough of Southwark written at first in the year 1698 (i.e. 1598)..Corrected, improved, and very much enlarged in the year 1720 by John Strype

Art Historical Context

This remarkable volume, first compiled by the Elizabethan historian John Stow in 1598 and later expanded by John Strype in 1720, offers a vivid portrait of London’s growth from a medieval city into a bustling Georgian metropolis. The 1754–55 edition preserved in the Metropolitan Museum’s collection brings together the work of numerous engravers, including Sutton Nicholls, Thomas Bowles II, and Johannes Kip, whose detailed plates map the streets, churches, and markets of London, Westminster, and Southwark. The illustrations, executed in etching and engraving, were ideally suited to the period’...

About the Artist

John Strype|John Stow|W. Innys, J. Richardson, C. Bathhurst|Sutton Nicholls|Thomas Bowles II|Louis Truchy|Richard William Seale|J. Maurer|Johannes Kip|Paul Fourdrinier|James Mynde (British|British|British|British|British|French|British|British|Dutch|French|British) · 1643 |1525 |1700 |1689 |1695 |1731 |1703 |1713 |1653 |1698 |1702 –1737 |1605 |1800 |1729 |1767 |1764 |1762 |1761 |1722 |1758 |1771

British, 1643–1737|British, 1525?–1605|London|British, active 1689–1729|British, ca. 1695–1767|French, Paris 1731?–1764|British, 1703–1762|British, active 1713–61|Dutch, Amsterdam before 1653–1721? London|French, Groningen 1698–1758 London|British, 1702–1771