Bowles (Thomas) after J. Donawell.

a vue d’optique, or perspective view, depicting not only the grand architecture, but also the bustling life, of 18th century London in this attractive form designed to be viewed through lenses to create an almost 3-D effect of depth, depicting the third great hall to house the Worshipful Company of Ironmongers, built in 1745 and destroyed by a bomb in 1917,

original hand-coloured engraving, 250 x 410 mm. (9 7/8 x 16 1/8 in), the sheet backed on contemporary paper resulting in some cockling to the sheet with some related wear to the pigment,