A View of London and Westminster, &c. from One Tree Hill, in Greenwich Park

Title also in French; no 4 top right; no date but dated from first state (PAF7620). A panoramic view sweeping from Blackwall reach in the east across London and terminating with the Observatory, with elegant figure groups in the Park in the foreground. It is a considerable feat of compressed perspective but not entirely topographically successful, since the result is the appearance of an arc of trees enclosing a parterre, all on higher ground than in fact exists below the Observatory. See also PAI7093 (earlier version, 1744), PAH3269 (1746). There are also later versions of 1774 and 1794.

Object Details

ID: PAF7619
Collection: Fine art
Type: Print
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Sayer, Robert; Stevens Tillemans, Pieter
Places: Unlinked place
Date made: circa 1752
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Sheet: 266 x 405 mm; Mount: 404 mm x 556 mm