The document provides an overview of maps and images documenting the mapping and development of London over time, from the 17th century following the Great Fire of London to the late 19th century. Key maps and images included are John Ogilby and William Morgan's 1676 map of London after the Great Fire, John Snow's 1854 map showing the Broad Street cholera outbreak, Charles Booth's 1889 maps depicting levels of poverty in London, and various maps and sketches showing the expansion and modernization of the city, including the construction of docks and embankments along the Thames.
5. The Great Fire of London (1666)
Painting of what it may have looked like on September 4, 1666
6. Richard Newcourt(author) and William Faithorne (engraver)
An Exact Delineation of the Cities of London and Westminster… (1658)
7. Richard Newcourt(author) and William Faithorne (engraver)
An Exact Delineation of the Cities of London and Westminster… (1658)
8. John Leake and William Leyburn
An Exact Surveigh of the Streets and Lanes and Churches Contained within the
Ruines of the City of London (1666, this is a second edition from 1667)
9. John Leake and William Leyburn
An Exact Surveigh of the Streets and Lanes and Churches Contained within the
Ruines of the City of London (1666, this is a second edition from 1667)
10. John Ogilby and William Morgan
A Large and Accurate Map of the City of London (1676)
11. Christopher Wren
A Plan of the City of London after the Fire in the Year of Our Lord 1666, with the
Model of the New City (1666, this print from 1749)
12. Baroque Rome as designed
by Pope Sixtus V
(late 16th c.)
Versailles designed for
French monarchy (17th-18th
c.)
13. John Ogilby and William Morgan
A Large and Accurate Map of the City of London [Detail] (1676)
14. Wiliam Faden
Plan of a Street Proposed from
Charing Cross to Portland Place
(1814)
Regency London is
characterized by the
redevelopment plans of
the Prince Regent and
architect, John Nash
31. Whistler
Nocturne in Blue and Gold: Old
Battersea Bridge
1872-77
Whistler
Nocturne: Blue and Silver -
Cremorne Lights
1872
32. William Strudwick (photographer)
View of the Thames shoreline before the Albert Embankment was built (1866-69)
London’s Great Stink
(1858)
John Leech (cartoonist)
Punch (July 3, 1858)
Father Thames introducing
“cholera,” “scropula,” and
“diphtheria” as his “offspring”
33. Edmund Cooper
Map of the Broad Street cholera epidemic (September 1854)
made for the Metropolitan Commission of Sewers