Image: Southwark Panorama After Wyngaerde1546

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Description: Southwark, Surrey, bird's eye panorama, 19th century engraving after an original drawing dated 1546 by Anton van den Wyngaerde (1525-1571), Sutherland Collection, Bodleian Library, Oxford. The large mansion house on the west side of Southwark High Street is Suffolk House, town house of Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk, 1st Viscount Lisle (c. 1484-1545). Now Borough High Street, it was the main thoroughfare from London Bridge and the City of London to Canterbury and Dover, as taken by monarchs and by the pilgrims in Chaucer's Pilgrim's Progress.
Title: Southwark Panorama After Wyngaerde1546
Credit: https://www.kingscourtgalleries.co.uk/product/prints/prints-london/southwark-and-london-bridge-1546-1841
Author: "Southwark and London Bridge as they appeared about 1546", "Drawn and etched by N.Whitlock". Hand coloured steel engraving dated 1841. Original of this engraving is a drawing dated 1546 by Anton van den Wyngaerde (1525-1571), Sutherland Collection, Bodleian Library, Oxford.
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