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View on the Thames from Southwark Bridge Looking towards London Bridge

image © Guy Peppiatt Fine Art | All Rights Reserved

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Artist

Gideon Yates (1790-1837)

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Guy Peppiatt Fine Art

Description

Watercolour over pencil with original pen and ink border
31 x 55.7 cm, 12 x 21 ' inches

This shows the newly built London Bridge which was opened on 1st August 1831 by William IV and Queen Adelaide. This watercolour is dated 1830 before the official opening. It was built by Sir John Rennie to the design of his father and was positioned upstream from the old bridge, which is visible in the present watercolour, but was taken down in 1832-33. A watercolour by Yates dated 1832 which shows the old bridge being dismantled was with Guy Peppiatt Fine Art in 2008 (now private collection). Rennie's bridge was sold in the 1970s and re-erected in Lake Havasu City, Arizona.

On the south bank stands Southwark Cathedral with, on the north bank, the Monument to the Great Fire of 1666 built in 1671-77, and the spire of the Church of St. Magnus Martyr behind the Fishmongers' Hall. Beyond is the distinctive spire of the Church of St. Dunstan in the East with the Tower of London in the distance.

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image © Guy Peppiatt Fine Art

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Southwark Bridge, London, England

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