Magnificient view of Victorian London - Robert Loudan 1863

Thomas Sulman

Papier
42 ⨯ 131 cm
€ 1.950

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  MAGNIFICENT VIEW OF VICTORIAN LONDON "London from the South side of the Thames", large format wood engraving made by Robert Loudan Sr., based on a drawing by Thomas Sulman. Published in 1863 as a supplement to The Illustrated London News. Coloured by a later hand. Size: 42.5 x 131 cm. A highly detailed panorama of London as seen from a hot air balloon. The city is viewed from a point above Kensington, showing the Thames from the Houses of Parliament to St Katherine Docks in the year before the Thames Embankment bill was passed, the legislation that led to the construction of the Victoria and Albert Embankments. On the north side of the Thames, we see Buckingham Palace, Hyde Park Corner, Big Ben, Trafalgar Square, St Paul's Cathedral, the Monument, and the Tower of London, with Regent's Park, Hampstead, and Highgate visible in the distance. On the south side of the Thames, there are Lambeth Palace, Bethlem Royal Hospital (now the Imperial War Museum), Waterloo Station, St George's Circus, and Elephant and Castle. Thomas Sulman (c. 1834-1900) was a specialist in creating cityscapes from a bird's-eye perspective using balloons, including views of London, Oxford, Glasgow, and New York. He worked for The Illustrated London News. Sulman studied at the Working Men's College in London between 1854-1858, where he was a student of, and later an engraver for, Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Price: Euro 1.950,-
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  Thomas Sulman was born in 1834.
  He was a specialist using balloons in drawing birds-eye views of cities including London, Oxford, Glasgow and New York. These views, as hand-coloured engravings produced with the help of London engraver Robert Loudan Sr., were featured in The Illustrated London News from the 1860s, and were sometimes produced to a fold-out six foot length
  
  Sulman studied at The Working Men’s College between 1854 to 1858, where he was a student of, and later an engraver for, Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
  
  In 1891 he produced high-level views of major London thoroughfares for Herbert Fry's London: Illustrated by Twenty Bird's Eye Views of the Principal Streets engraved by George William Ruffle (1838–1901).
  
  He worked for the Illustrated London News, but he also drew and engraved images for newspaper and magazine advertisements, including one for Beethams Glycerine and Cucumber showing a young woman with toiletries. He illustrated for The Boy’s Own Annual in the 1880s.
  
  He died around 1900.

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