from Ackermann’s ‘Microcosm of London, the interior of the chapel when it was under the protection of the King of Sardinia and the Sardinian embassy in London, having been founded in the reign of James II, in 1688, only to suffer repeated sackings and lootings as the legality of, and public attitude towards, Catholic worship fluctuated in the reigns that followed,
original hand-coloured engraving, with aquatint by John Bluck, 230 x 280 mm. (9 x 11 in), slight marginal browning,