The Great Fire of London, 1666 | London Museum
This painting creates a very dramatic impression of what the fire was like. People are running out of the gates and a woman sits in despair on the ground next to her baby in a cradle. It probably represents the fire on the night of Tuesday 4 September.
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Painting titled ‘The Great Fire of London 1666’. This painting creates a very dramatic impression of what the fire was like. People are running out of the gates of Newgate prison, and a woman sits in despair on the ground next to her baby in a cradle.
Great Fire of London - Wikipedia
The Great Fire of London, depicted by an unknown painter (1675), as it would have appeared from a boat in the vicinity of Tower Wharf on the evening of Tuesday, 4 September 1666. To the left is London Bridge; to the right, the Tower of London.
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Painting: ‘The Great Fire of London, 1666’ by an unknown artist after Waggoner
The Great Fire of London
This painting shows a view of the Great Fire as imagined between eight and nine o'clock on the evening of Tuesday, 4 September 1666, from a boat in the vicinity of Tower Wharf. The viewpoint selected which was the safest for sketching and authentic details like the minutely observed sparks scattered high over the city, suggest that the unknown ...
The Great Fire of London in 1666 - Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
Artist: Lieve Verschuier Rotterdam, ca. 1630 – Rotterdam, 1686. Culture: Netherlandish: Date: second half of the 17th century: Object type: painting : Medium, technique: oil on canvas: Dimensions: 92.5 x 148.5 cm
The Great Fire of London - Society of Antiquaries of London
Documenting the Great Fire of London in 1666, the scene is unusually taken from an elevated vantage point of Essex Stairs. The painting represented the fire after it had spread to St Paul’s Cathedral and just beyond, corresponding to the description given by John Evelyn (1620-1706) in his diary for September 4th, 1666.
The Great Fire of London, 1666 - Art UK
The Great Fire of London, 1666 by Jan Griffier I (c.1652–1718), from Museum of London
The Great Fire of London - Art Fund
Panoramic view of the conflagration. The artist may have been an eye witness to the Fire as it is an entirely accurate record of the scene on the night of 4 September 1666. The viewpoint is unusual, but the best and safest for the artist.
The Great Fire of London in the Year 1666 - Government Art …
The Great Fire of London began on Sunday 2 September 1666 at a baker's shop in Pudding Lane, near London Bridge. It took less than a week for the fire to destroy 13,200 houses, 87 parish...