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The Great Fire in the City: ruins of Haberdashers' Hall, 1864. Creator: Unknown.

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The Great Fire in the City: ruins of Haberdashers' Hall, [City of London], 1864. 'In a conflagration of a calamitous extent...one of the oldest of our civic halls - that of the Haberdashers' Company - has been almost reduced to roofless walls and blackened rafters...The ancient hall of the Haberdashers, with many of the company's records and property of much value, were destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666...In the year after the Fire, 1667, the rebuilding of the hall was commenced by Wren...The banqueting-room was lofty and spacious, and had a screen and music-gallery...The arms of distinguished members were emblazoned on the hall windows, six of which, on the south side, had been completed this year, but are destroyed; and the front of the gallery is described as decorated with some of [Grinling] Gibbons's carving. The pictures, we are glad to hear, are saved: they are interesting memorials, though not of artistic merit. We regret that so many of the City halls closely adjoin warehouses, or are in part let for business, and are thus more liable to be destroyed by fire. In times when the halls had their gardens this dread was not felt'. From "Illustrated London News", 1864.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

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HRM24A14_494

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33,4Mo (2,9Mo) / 33,6cm x 24,9cm / 3972 x 2940 (300dpi)

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England interior destruction arts light window art trade fire British color windows accident damage damaged ruins ruin roof debris rubble century city of london Britain inside newspapers press print concept ruined incident guild B&W aftermath engraved engraving Colour 19th century Indoors black & white black and white B W white and black nineteenth century The Print Collector Haberdashers' Company Haberdashers' Hall Illustrated London News Livery Company TGN ILN Company of Haberdashers newspaper Unknown Sir Christopher Wren Wren Christopher Wren Christopher débris Worshipful Company of Haberdashers Sir Christopher 19th-century