This drawing, like [No. 14], is stamped with the initials “PS.” It was therefore in the collection of Paul Sandby, and below it, on mount, is the following inscription (not contemporary), “Drawn by T Sandby 1752.”
By T. Sandby, R.A. (1721-1798). Lent by H.M. the King.
19 [OLD LONDON BRIDGE FROM BILLINGSGATE.] Plate XI.
Watercolour. 21¼ by 12½ in.
Shows, on the Surrey side of the river, St. Olave’s Church, Tooley Street, lately closed, a neighbouring shot tower destroyed in a fire of 1843, and St. Saviour’s Church, now Southwark Cathedral.
By G. Yates, 1828. Lent by Sir E. Coates.
20 OLD LONDON BRIDGE FROM THE WEST.
Watercolour. 22 by 12½ in.
The bridge as altered when the houses on it were pulled down soon after the middle of the eighteenth century. The wide arch was then formed by the removal of a pier, two arches being thrown into one, which nearly caused the collapse of the fabric. An archaic steamer has a greyhound painted on its paddle-box.
By G. Yates, 1830. Lent by Sir E. Coates.