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Auction: 25360 - The 360th Anniversary Sale
Lot: 27

LARGE RARE PANORAMA OF LONDON, DEPICTING THE GREAT FIRE OF 1666

Panorama of London, published just after the Great Fire of London, 1674, Vienna, [unknown Cartographer], view of the city seen from Southwark on the South Bank, both the Globe and Swan Theatres visible in the foreground, London Bridge depicted with the heads of the executed on pikes at the entrance, it has been suggested that the view is potentially a variant of that of Claes Jan Visscher of 1616, that was included in the third part of the "Historia di Leopoldo Cesare..." by Galeazzo Gualdo Priorato, published by Battista Hacque in Vienna in 1670-74, (Graesse (1922) III, 166. Lipperheide (1965) Ci 38. Scouloudi (1953) p. 35.).
30cm x 92cm.
Stunning with excellent hand colour, rare, very good condition.

At the time when John Spink was just beginning his business in London in the mid-1660s, the capital had just gone through the horror of the Great Plague, followed by the destruction wrought by the Great Fire and was in the depth of a military crisis which had already been running for over a decade. Hardly inspiring times to set up a new business! John Spink founded his goldsmith's and pawnbroker's business near Lombard Street in London around 1666 (though the actual date is not certain). The Great Fire of 1666 caused a temporary disruption and relocation but Spink returned to Lombard Street when it had been rebuilt after the devastation and remained there for over a hundred years.

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Estimate
£4,000 to £4,500

Starting price
£1666