Old Somerset House, London
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Artist/Photographer | Kip, Johannes (1652 or 3-1722) |
Country | UK: England |
City | London |
Subject Date | 1660 |
Image Date | 1707 |
View | Aerial |
Medium | Print |
Library Reference | EW E.d.40 |
Orientation | Landscape |
Colour Info | Black and white |
Credit | RIBA Collections |
Subject | Riverside buildings ; Gardens ; Town houses ; Palaces ; Rivers |
SOURCE: Britannia illustrata (London, 1707), vol. 1, pl. 4 NOTES: Begun in 1547 and altered throughout the 16th and 17th centuries, by 1700 this grand complex was no longer a palace. Everything shown in this pl. disappeared when Sir William Chambers' new Somerset House was built in 1776.
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