Leopold’s View of London poetry light toning where previously mounted

light toning where previously mounted and framed

District within ¼ mile radius [of] Paddington Praed Street

an insurance firm

The latter invites himself on the writer's journey

Adams O-200

Leopold’s View of London poetry light toning where previously mountedThis is a view showing London before the Great Fire, from the South Bank of the Thames, including London Bridge and old St Pauls. Principal buildings are numbered, corresponding to a key on banners carried by putti in the upper corners of the image, on either side of a central banderole. It is not a view of London which would have been familiar to contemporary Londoners. Leopold was active in the first two decades of the 18th century, the figures in