A Survey of London, by Party of Tarry-at-Home Travellers: A New Game to Amuse and Instruct a Company of Friends

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Royal Hospital, Chelsea (long-term loans)

This coloured engraving shows 17 individual views of London sites set around a circle with St Paul’s cathedral at the centre, backed by linen and divided into 9 sections for folding. The views depicted here include: Waterloo Bridge, the interior of the House of Commons, the Custom House, the Royal Exchange, Somerset House Quadrangle, the Adelphi, Somerset House from the River, the Egyptian Hall in Piccadilly, the Monument, Westminster Hall, The Guildhall, the Statue of Charles I at top of Whitehall, the Tower of London and St. Paul's Cathedral. As the title indicates, this card game was designed to teach children about notable buildings in 19th-century London.

Places

England, London

Subjects

mast, rowing boat, carriage, wagon, statue (as Subject), topography, male portrait, townscape/cityscape, Victorian Genre, horse, river bank, river, man, woman, girl, 19th century costume, Member of Parliament, Speaker of the House of Commons, monument, bridge (urban), prison, government building, museum, church, cathedral, dome, courtyard, window, balcony, colonnade, tower, legal interior, public interior, state interior, sailboat, ship

Materials & Techniques

paper (as artists material), linen, engraving, coloured engraving

Artist

British 19th century unknown

Title

A Survey of London, by Party of Tarry-at-Home Travellers: A New Game to Amuse and Instruct a Company of Friends

Date

c.1820

Medium

Coloured engraving

Dimensions

height: 50.00 cm, width: 39.00 cm

Acquisition

Transferred from HM Revenue and Customs, December 2012

Provenance

Bequest of Sir Ernest Clark to the Inland Revenue, 1951 (received 1972); transferred to GAC, 2012

GAC number

10377