


Lot 24
PEEPSHOW - LONDON Viaorama, or the Way to St. Paul, Ingrey & Madeley, December 1825
Ending from 19 November 2025, 12:00 GMT
Online, London, Knightsbridge£500 - £700
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PEEPSHOW - LONDON
Viaorama, or the Way to St. Paul, concertina peepshow with 5 hand-coloured engraved lithographed panels, opening lithographed peephole and backboard depicting St. Paul's Cathedral, the bellows watermarked "Whatman Turkey Mills, 1823" (one with short tear), original slipcase with hand-coloured lithographed pictorial title label on upper cover (worn) [Hyde 197], 170 x 162mm., expands to approx. 300mm., Ingrey & Madeley, December 1825
Footnotes
A peepshow depicting a busy street scene leading to St. Paul's Cathedral, populated with fashionably dressed Regency society, tradesmen (including one making a delivery to the publisher's shop), and carriages, one carrying the slogan "Tally-Ho. Dover-Paris".
"The 'Way' to St Paul's was particularly topical at this time. In the summer of 1825, Lt Col Sir Frederick William Trench MP proposed the construction of a two-mile 'Triumphal Way' from Hyde Park to St Paul's, a proposal which was rejected and ridiculed. By portraying the existing 'Way' to St Paul's the paper peepshow would seem to say 'what's wrong with what we've got.'!" (V & A. Nat. Art Library, website).