Joseph Farington, R.A. (1747-1821)
London Bridge and the Monument from the South West
oil on canvas
35 ½ x 27 in. (90 x 69 cm.)
EXHIBITED:
Royal Academy, 1791, No. 252
In its original gold leaf Royal Academician frame
LITERATURE:
This picture is related to a drawing of the same view in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Farington also produced two drawings of a slightly expanded view of the Thames, one of which was engraved and appeared in Volume 2 of Boydell’s Hisory of the River Thames (1796, Pl.62)
United Kingdom