Title:

The Monument

Description:

This engraving depicts The Monument, a Doric column in the City of London, near the northern end of London Bridge, which commemorates the Great Fire of London. It stands at the junction of Monument Street and Fish Street Hill, 202 ft (62 m) tall and 202 ft (62 m) from the spot in Pudding Lane where the Great Fire started on 2 September 1666. Constructed between 1671 and 1677, it was built on the site of St. Margaret's, Fish Street, the first church to be burnt down by the Great Fire. It was designed by Christopher Wren and Robert Hooke. Its height marks its distance from the site of the shop of Thomas Farynor, the king's baker, where the Great Fire began.

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. Narrow side margins. The attached photo is part of the item description, please examine carefully.

Color: Uncoloured.

Size (h x w): approx. 33.5 x 20.7 cm, (neat line)

Technique: Copperplate

Engraver: Unknown

Date: 1720

Ref:JJB2876