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LONDON; 1843 PANORAMA OF CITY. Description to f

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LONDON; 1843 PANORAMA OF CITY. Description to f
<B>The </B></I><B><I>Illustrated London News</B></I></B></I><B> Colosseum View of London.</B></I> Extremely large, 11.5” x 92.5”, wood engraved panorama of London, 1843, on multiple connected sheets with original hand-coloring, still on the original single maple roller with elaborate gilt-stamped green cloth extension including title, original printed paper key to locations also present and connected to the wood roller. In extremely choice condition, very brief handling, a few light and short creases occasional along edges, coloring still very strong.<BR>“<I>The publisher of the London Illustrated News, Herbert Ingram, believed that photography, first announced to the world in 1839, could be of use to his illustrated newspaper. He had in mind the publication of the giant view of London photographed from the top of the Duke of York's column, 124 feet high. Official permission was granted for photographs to be taken from its summit and Antoine Claudet, with his daguerreotype camera, climbed the twisting steps inside the monument. At the dizzy top he set up his apparatus and exposed a sequence of views of London, looking north, and another sequence looking south. <BR>After development, the daguerreotype plates of silvery metal were laid side by side in two rows one above the other to make a lay-out of the picture which was to be printed on paper four feet four inches wide and nearly three feet high, but first an artist, C. F. Sargent, using a pencil, had to draw the photographic detail onto the smooth surface of the biggest wood-block ever made. It was composed of sixty pieces of box-wood joined tightly together "without line, speck or flaw" and then sent to Ebenezer Landell's engraving firm where he and his staff of eighteen assistants worked day and night for two months on the largest engraving ever executed. <BR>By the end of the year, the great Colosseum View of London in 1842 had been engraved, stereotyped and printed by Palmer and Clayton at 10 Crane Court, and this famous picture was supplied in company with the Illustrated London News issue of 7 January 1843. The print was a huge success.</B></I>”<BR><BR><BR><b>Shipping:</b> Miscellaneous Collectibles, Larg (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.heritageauctions.com/common/shipping.php">view shipping information</a>)
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