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Lot 45

LONDON - GREENWICH
View of Greenwich, looking north from the park above the Queen's House and the Old Royal Naval College, across the Thames to the Isle of Dogs and docks, [1860s]

27 November 2018, 13:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

£600 - £800

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LONDON - GREENWICH

View of Greenwich, looking north from the park above the Queen's House and the Old Royal Naval College, across the Thames to the Isle of Dogs and docks, albumen print from wet collodion glass negative, 360 x 495mm., [1860s]

Footnotes

Striking large "bird's-eye" view, by an unidentified nineteenth century photographer, looking northwards from an elevated position in Greenwich Park, Inigo Jones' Queen's House in the mid-ground, with tall ships on the Thames, and the Isle of Dogs, and what is now the skyscrapers of Canary Wharf beyond.

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