Dr Greg Robertsさんのイラストまとめ

For me early Victorian #London is best epitomised by scenes of narrow lanes between unsteady old buildings that seem to lean claustrophobically towards one another such as shown in this glimpse down Cloth Fair towards Smithfield, drawn by J Findlay (1852)

A Bridge to Modern Times
A lovely view of the Thames looking south across new #London Bridge towards the Collegiate Church of St Saviour and St Mary Overie (Southwark Catherdral), at the advent of steamship technology, by Gideon Yates (1837)

If ventriloquism was your thing in the late Georgian era then look no further than James Burns, stage name Squeaking Tommy from Nottingham, who had a hand in some of the best-known talking puppets

Boxing Day Gambols
'First view the humour of the City,
Judge next if what they do is witty!'

A view in Cheapside #London December 26th 1747 - back in the good old days when being part of a crowd was fun

8/9 Not forgetting the drunken love overtures that follow

7/9 Time for a dance to overcome all that lovely food and drink

5/9 The Head Butler uncorks the wine ready for dinner

3/9 Whilst the rest of the old folks settle down for a nice game of cards

Lest We Forget
1/2 The Old Commodore of Tottenham Court Road
A portrait of a well-known black beggar, man wearing a long coat and with a wooden leg, right hand holding a hat and left hand resting on a broom handle
By William Fairland, #London c.1835

3/8 Three camels allowed out of their pen for good behaviour whilst recalcitrant goats and zebras languish behind unfeasibly low fences at Regent's park Zoological Gardens
Scharf #London (1835)