Photograph: Ruins discovered at the corner of Whitcomb Street
1822
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Photograph of an engraving of ruins discovered at the corner of Whitcomb Street near Charing Cross, December 1821; plan of the neighbourhood where the ruins were discovered; plan of ruins. Published 1 June 1822 by Robert Wilkinson, 125 Fenchurch Street. Original in National Gallery Archives (plan chest). Donated by Mr T. Hayes, 46 Chesham Road, Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, 11 December 1968. Copy photograph: National Gallery. Neg. M1309.
For details of the excavation, see Robert Wilkinson, Londina illustrata. Graphic and historic memorials of monasteries, churches, chapels, schools, charitable foundations, palaces, halls, courts, processions, places of early amusement and modern and present theaters, in the city and suburbs of London and Westminster (1825), vol. 2, p. 57.
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