Author: H. ISHAM artist
Title: A View of St. James's Church, Clerkenwell, from the West, Looking Towards the East Window, as the same appered whilst taking down, in order to be rebuilt. [with] A View of the Tower...
Description: Sarjent, 57 John St. Fitzroy Sq. [ink ms note], [1788] Pair of hand coloured aquatints by Francis Jukes, each 300 mm. diameter, top blank corners of the second cut at an angle, both mounted on thin card. The old church, a medley of styles from the 17th and 18th centuries, grafted on to the ruins of the old nunnery, dissolved by Henry VII, was dismantled and the new church, after a design by John Carr replaced it, being dedicated in 1792.

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