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View and Perspective of the City of London, Westminster, and St James’s Park

The Dutch engraver & printer Johannes Kip had worked for the stadthouder William of Orange in Amsterdam and unsurprisingly followed the prince to London after the English Revolution of 1688.

This view of London and Westminster is most notable for the unique perspective it takes: a bird’s eye view from above the Duke of Buckingham’s house, later acquired by the Crown and now, as Buckingham Palace, the primary royal residence.

This printing of Kip’s view, which comes up for auction soon at Daniel Crouch Rare Books, may have been printed after 1726 as it incorporates Gibb’s steeple of St Martin-in-the-Fields.

St James’s Palace

View towards Westminster

Looking down the Mall

All Images: © Daniel Crouch Rare Books

Published at 12:05 pm on Tuesday 25 October 2016. Categories: Architecture Art Errant Thoughts Great Britain Tags: , , .
Comments

Your comment about the date of St Martin spire irrefutable. It also seemingly predates Hawksmoor’s towers of the Abbey of 1735 – 45. Assuming the towers would have been drawn complete once work had begun, this gives us a precise snapshot of the rapidly changing plan of London in the ten years around 1730. Thank you.

— Josephus Muris Saliensis 30 Oct 2016 11:30 pm
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