Title:

Christ Hospitall

Description:

This engraving depicts Christ's Hospital, built specifically for the education of poor children and opened in Newgate in 1552. A Royal Charter was granted and signed by its founder, Edward VI, the following year. In 1666 the Great Fire of London destroyed much of the Hospital, except four cloisters and three wards. By the end of the 17th century the buildings had been rebuilt with the assistance of Christopher Wren, a Governor of Christ's Hospital, and Nicholas Hawksmoor, who designed the Writing School (1696). The church of Christ Church, Newgate Street, designed by Wren, replaced the damaged choir of the former Greyfriars' church and served as a place of worship for the children of Christ's Hospital in the City.

John Stow's "Survey" appeared first in 1598 and remained the major reference source on the city's history for decades. However, it was not until around 1700 that steps were taken to produce an up-dated edition with maps illustrating the areas described. Richard Blome (1641-1705) was charged with preparing a series of ward plans, copied from the detail of the recently published large-scale map of London by John Ogilby and William Morgan, frequently at a larger scale, thus with more clarity, and with major buildings shown pictorially in profile as "uprights". The plans were finally published in John Strype's "Survey Of The Cities Of London And Westminster ... ", being the first ward maps to be published.

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Publication: A Survey of the Cities of
London and Westminster: containing the original, antiquity, increase, modern estate and government of those Cities.
Written at first in the Year MDXCVIII.
By John Stow, citizen and native of London.
Since Reprinted and Augmented by the author now lastly corrected, improved, and very much enlarged: And the survey and
history brought down from the Year 1633, (being near Fourscore Years
since it was last printed) to the present time;
By John Strype, M.A. a native also of the said City.

Condition: Good. Mildly age toned. The sheet has been washed and pressed by a professional conservator. Bottom margin extended to facilitate mounting. The attached photo is part of the item description, please examine carefully.

Color: Uncoloured.

Size (h x w): approx. 20.3 x 32.3 cm, (neat line)

Technique: Copperplate

Engraver: Unknown

Date: 1720

Ref:JJB2869