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Museum number: 1880,1113.3114
Description: View of the Brown Bear public house in Bow Street, Covent Garden, opposite the site of the Bow Street Police Office; a number of figures gather outside entrance to pub, four men in right foreground walking away from it, an old woman with a cart on the left, and a boy playing with a hoop beyond her. 1825 Watercolour
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Production date: 1825
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Dimensions: Height: 276 millimetres; Width: 188 millimetres
Curator's comments: The date is taken from the Crace catalogue. The pub made way in 1832 for the headquarters of the Covent Garden police division built in 1831-2 on the east side of Bow Street on the site of Nos. 33-34. Information provided by Lee Timmins.
Bibliographic references: Crace 1878 / A Catalogue of Maps, Plans and Views of London, Westminster and Southwark, collected and arranged by Frederick Crace (XVIII.128); Binyon 1898-1907 / Catalogue of drawings by British artists, and artists of foreign origin working in Great Britain (14)
Location: Not on display
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Associated places: Topographic representation of: London
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Acquisition date: 1880
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1880,1113.3114

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