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INDEX

1. Introduction and About the Series click

2. About William Parrott click

3. Plates and Images click

4. Bernard Adams's Commentary click

5. CD click

6. Source of Images and Copyright click

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PLATES AND IMAGES

Complete Series with Images click. (This will take several minutes.)

Individual Plates and Images:

1. Cover vignette of St Paul's click
2. Title plate click
3. London Bridge from the Pool click
4. Chelsea with Part of the Old Church & Sir Hans Sloane's Tomb click
5. West India Docks from the South East click
6. Westminster & Hungerford from Waterloo Bridge click
7. Lambeth & Westminster. From Millbank click
8. Southwark Bridge from London Bridge click
9. Ship Building at Limehouse, the President on the Stocks click
10. The Poo. From London Bridge. Morning click
11. Waterloo Bridge from the West with a Boat Race click
12. The Pool. Looking towards London Bridge click
13. Greenwich and the Dreadnaught click
14. Somerset House, St Pauls & Blackfriars Bridge from Waterloo Bridge click

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WILLIAM PARROT "LONDON FROM THE THAMES" (1842)

A set of 12 hand-coloured lithographs. This was one of the last important series to be hand-coloured before colour printing processes took over.

The lithograph was printed in two stages, the first stone with the line drawing and the second with the areas of tone.

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

This series of prints is Series 198 as catalogued in London Illustrated 1604-1851 by Bernard Adams.


ABOUT WILLIAM PARROTT

Notes by Ralph Hyde will be added.

There is also background on Wiliam Parrott in Bernard Adams's text from London Illustrated 1604-1851.


SOURCE OF IMAGES AND COPYRIGHT

The images in this series in the Motco Enterprises Limited database were photographed digitally from a bound volume in the Motco collection.

The larger (digital) images in the database are marked as Copyright Motco 2002. They may only be copied for personal use. If you require access to the images for commercial use, in hard copy or digital form, please contact Motco.

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Copyright 2002 MOTCO Enterprises Limited