drawing
- Museum number
- 1868,0328.300
- Description
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Interior of the Royal Exchange; interior of the great quadrangle from the north-east corner of the inner cloister, or walk, with the clock tower on the left, and the court filled with merchants of various nations. 1777
Pen and black ink with brown wash, with touches of watercolour, and white heightening, over graphite
- Production date
- 1777
- Dimensions
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Height: 393 millimetres
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Width: 531 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The drawing represents the second Royal Exchange, built in 1674 by Edward Jarman after the first Royal Exchange had been destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666. This building was in turn destroyed by fire in 1838.
Above the entrance are an advertisement for Ward's cork life-jacket (see Heal 50.11), and a notice concerning the Marine Society founded by Jonas Hanway in 1756 to train poor boys for careers in the navy.
The drawing was engraved by Bartolozzi in 1788.
Lit.: O. Lefeuvre, 'Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg 1740-1812', Paris, 2012, fig. 10
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1778 London, Royal Academy, no.51
1936 BM 'Canaletto to Constable', no no.
1974 Jun-Aug, London, Iveagh Bequest, Kenwood, 'de Loutherbourg', no.24
2007 Mar-June, Beijing, Palace Museum, Britain meets the World
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0328.300