Geraldine Edith Mitton,
Maps of Old London — Antony van den Wyngaerde - Panorama of London
(1908)
“ Turning the page, we see the old City as it was before the Fire, made up of gable-ended wooden houses with overhanging stories, crowded close together, and diversified by the numerous pinnacles and spires of the City churches, many of which were never rebuilt. ”
Geraldine Edith Mitton,
Maps of Old London — Antony van den Wyngaerde - Panorama of London
(1908)
“ In Bermondsey two Queens died—Katherine, consort of Henry V., and Elizabeth, consort of Edward IV. Only a year or two before this map was made had the grand old Abbey been surrendered to the King (for a full account see Mediæval London, vol. ii., p. 288) .The Tower, taken as a whole, is very much as we still know it; it is one of the oldest remaining relics of the past. Note the gruesome place of execution near by, and the guns and primitive cranes at work upon the wharf. Just beyond it eastward rise the fretted pinnacles of St. Katherine's by the Tower, on the spot now covered by St. ”
Geraldine Edith Mitton,
Maps of Old London — Antony van den Wyngaerde - Panorama of London
(1908)
“ The houses running from it up to the foreground of the picture are beautifully delineated, and may be taken as models of Elizabethan architecture; while the man with the harp and the horseman are quite clearly enough drawn to show their period by the style of their dress. ”
