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MONK'S CALENDAR

"The London Calendar" was started by W. Monk in 1903. Every year something in the order of one hundred copies were printed. Today the calendars are therefore rare and sought after. Each calendar carries conventional calendar text but also an original print. For most of its existence the prints have been etchings; latterly they have been aquatints.

JASON HICKLIN - YEAR 2003

The year 2003 calendar will be the third produced by Jason Hicklin, R.E., who succeeded Antony Dyson.

ARTICLES BY RALPH HYDE

This website was originally set up to complement articles by Ralph Hyde in the June 2000 issue of Print Quarterly (pages 132-147) and an earlier one in the 13th January issue of Country Life featuring Anthony Dyson and the printing of the first proofs of the year 2000 calendar. This site complemented those articles by providing access to all the images, which is impractical in the printed article itself. At the time the two articles were originally published there appeared to be no successor to Tony Dyson and the year 2000 calendar might have been the last.

TO ORDER THE YEAR 2002 CALENDAR

The LONDON CALENDAR 2003 is now available. The price is UK£23.50 including first class postage and packing within the U.K, or US$35 to include airmail postage and packing overseas. If you wish to order please contact Jason Hicklin at Molineux Press, Meifod, Montgomeryshire SY22 6BZ, Wales, UK. Please make any cheque payable to J.Hicklin.

See below for a complete list of the calendars and access to all the images.

If you click on the above image of the 2003 calendar, and then on the subsequent images you will see the 2003 calendar in more detail.

INDEX OF CALENDARS AND IMAGES

Below is a complete list of all years. Click as indicated to access the image of each plate and the larger image. The images are retrieved from the Motco Enterprises Limited database, and were photographed from the collection of Jonathan Gestetner, of Marlborough Rare Books, and the more recent ones owned by Motco.

The "publication line" quoted for each calendar is that on the one in Jonathan Gestetner's collection. There is another complete collection in the Print Room of the (London) Guildhall Library. In some cases these have a different "publication line" with an alternative address. There are at least two additional issues of the calendar in the form of advertisements, in 1909 with a plate of St Paul's from Bankside, for John Batt & Co, London Ltd. and the other in 1914 with a plate of King William Street, E.C., for London Life Association Ltd. These are not at this stage in this database, but are in the (London) Guildhall Library collection.

1903 [St James's Palace] (W.Monk) click
1904 [Clifford's Inn] (W.Monk) click
1905 [Old Westminster Abingdon Street, Westminster]
          (W.Monk) click
1906 [St Paul's from Ludgate Hill] (W.Monk) click
1907 [Hyde Park Corner] (W.Monk) click
1908 [Staples Inn] (W.Monk) click
1909 [Tower of London] (W.Monk) click
1910 [Houses of Parliament] (W.Monk) click

1911 [St John's Gate, Clerkenwell] (W.Monk) click
1912 The Old Dick Whittington Inn, Cloth Fair.
          (W.Monk) click
1913 The Guildhall, E.C. (W.Monk) click
1914 Foundling Hospital. (W.Monk) click
1915 Buckingham Palace. (W.Monk) click
1916 Horse Guards, Whitehall. (W.Monk) click
1917 Westminster Abbey. (W.Monk) click
1918 The Admiralty. (W.Monk) click
1919 The War Office. (W.Monk) click
1920 The Cenotaph, Whitehall. (W.Monk) click

1921 London Bridge. (W.Monk) click
1922 Piccadilly & Devonshire House. (W.Monk) click
1923 The Bank of England. (W.Monk) click
1924 Piccadilly Circus. (W.Monk) click
1925 Trafalgar Square. (W.Monk) click
1926 Whitehall. (W.Monk) click
1927 The Strand. (W.Monk) click
1928 London River. (W.Monk) click
1929 Old Watling Way, Sunday in the City. (W.Monk)
          click
1930 The City of Westminster. (W.Monk) click

1931 Doctor Johnson's House Gough Square Fleet
          Street. (W.Monk) click
1932 Number 10 Downing Street Whitehall. (W.Monk)
          click
1933 London from the Pool Drawn from Tower Bridge.
          (W.Monk) click
1934 Charles Dickens House Devonshire Terrace Mary-
          le-Bone. (W.Monk) click
1935 The British Museum, The Portico. (W.Monk) click
1936 Buckingham Palace from St James's Park (floodlit).
          (W.Monk) click
1937 The Coronation Chair and 15th Century Stone
          Screen Westminster Abbey. (W.Monk) click
1938 Lambeth Reach and Westminster. (W.Monk) click
1939 St James's Church [Piccadilly]. (Leonard R.
          Squirrell) click
1940 Marlborough House & St. James's Palace.
          (Leonard R. Squirrell) click

1941 Langham Place. (Leonard R. Squirrell) click
1942 St Paul's Cathedral. (Frank Emanuel, Leonard R.
          Squirrell) click
1943 Parliament Square, Westminster. (Frank Emanuel,
          Leonard R. Squirrell) click
1944 Saint James's Palace, Ambassador's Court. (Frank
          Emanuel, Leonard R. Squirrell) click
1945 Lambeth Palace from the Thames. (Frank Emanuel,
          Leonard R. Squirrell) click
1946 The Admiralty Archway. (Frank Emanuel, Leonard
          R. Squirrell) click
1947 Whitehall. (Leonard R. Squirrell) click
1948 The Horse Guards Parade. (Leonard R. Squirrell)
          click
1949 Grosvenor Square. (Leonard R. Squirrell) click
1950 The Tower of London. (Leonard R. Squirrell) click

1951 Waterloo Bridge. (Leonard R. Squirrell) click
1952 The Duke of York's Column. (Leonard R. Squirrell)
          click
1953 Hyde Park Corner. (Leonard R. Squirrell) click
1954 [Westminster Abbey, with the Temporary annexe
          erected for the Coronation] (Leonard R. Squirrell)
          click
1955 The Upper Pool of London. (Leonard R. Squirrell)
          click
1956 St James's Park. (Leonard R. Squirrell) click
1957 St. Martin-in-the-Fields. (Leonard R. Squirrell)
          click
1958 The Law Courts. (Leonard R. Squirrell) click
1959 The Royal Exchange. (Leonard R. Squirrell) click
1960 St Paul's from Fleet Street. (Leonard R. Squirrell)
          click

1961 Piccadilly Circus. (Leonard R. Squirrell) click
1962 The Clock Tower, Westminster. (Leonard R.
          Squirrell) click
1963 Greenwich The Royal Naval College. (Leonard R.
          Squirrell) click
1964 The Tate Gallery. (Leonard R. Squirrell) click
1965 Liverpool Street Station. (Leonard R. Squirrell)
          click
1966 Lincoln's Inn. (Leonard R. Squirrell) click
1967 Theatre Royal Haymarket. (Harry N. Eccleston)
          click
1968 London's Canal - Little Venice. (Harry N.
          Eccleston) click
1969 St Margaret's Church, Westminster. (Harry N.
          Eccleston) click
1970 Kensington Palace. (Harry N. Eccleston) click

1971 The Jewel House [Palace of Westminster].
          (Lawrence Josset) click
1972 The Charterhouse. (Lawrence Josset) click
1973 H.M.S. Discovery. (Lawrence Josset) click
1974 The Temple Church. (Lawrence Josset) click
1975 Christ's Hospital (The Bluecoat School).
          (Lawrence Josset) click
1976 The Royal Academy, Burlington House. (Lawrence
          Josset) click
1977 The Marble Arch Hyde Park. (Lawrence Josset)
          click
1978 The George Inn, Southwark. (Lawrence Josset)
          click
1979 York Water Gate. (Lawrence Josset) click
1980 St Bartholomew's Hospital, Smithfield. (Lawrence
          Josset) click

1981 Lancaster House. (Lawrence Josset) click
1982 Covent Garden Theatre (Royal Opera House).
          (Lawrence Josset) click
1983 The Royal Mews, Buckingham Palace. (Lawrence
          Josset) click
1984 St. Paul's Church, Covent Garden. (Lawrence
          Josset) click
1985 The Old Curiosity Shop. (Lawrence Josset) click
1986 Sir Christopher Wren's House, Cardinal's Wharf.
          (Lawrence Josset) click
1987 No. 1 Savile Row [Premises of Gieves & Hawkes,
          tailors and hatters] (Lawrence Josset) click
1988 [Liberty's, Gt Marlborough Street] (Lawrence
          Josset) click
1989 London's Highway. (Dorothy Sweet) click
1990 St. Pancras Hotel and Station Euston Road.
          (Anthony Dyson) click

1991 Tower Bridge. (Anthony Dyson) click
1992 St. Paul's Cathedral and the Black Friar Public
          House. (Anthony Dyson) click
1993 Hampton Court Palace. (Anthony Dyson) click
1994 St. Martin-in-the-Fields. (Anthony Dyson) click
1995 The London Oratory. (Anthony Dyson) click
1996 The New Globe Theatre. (Anthony Dyson) click
1997 St John's Church, Westminster. (Anthony Dyson)
          click
1998 The Cutty Sark. (Anthony Dyson) click
1999 The Millennium Dome [as seen from Royal Victoria
          Dock] (Anthony Dyson) click
2000 A London Millennium. (Anthony Dyson) click
2001 Tate Modern. (Jason Hicklin) click
2002 Monument. (Jason Hicklin) click
2003 St James' Palace, Centenary Edition. (Jason Hicklin) click

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The larger (digital) images in the database are marked as Copyright Motco. They may only be copied for personal use. The copyright of the plates and images remains with the originator(s) or their heirs.