Sujet

Old Houses, Fleet Street, c1884. Creator: Henry Dixon & Son.

Légende

Old Houses, Fleet Street, c1884. Shops in the City of London: 'W.m. Reeves, Bookseller & Publisher, Depot for Musical Books, Libraries Purchased, Office of the Musical Standard weekly 3d, the Musical Gazette & Review, monthly 2d; Daily News, The Metropolitan School of Short Hand, The Central School of French; Cod is now in Full Season, Prime Fried Turbot, 6d, Try Our...South Dutch Mussels'. Description by Alfred Marks: 'Aubrey tells us that Michael Drayton, the poet, "lived at the bay-windowe house, next the East end of St. Dunstan's Ch." Tradition claimes for the house shown in the middle of the photograph the honour of having been the residence of the author of Polyoblion. The Great Fire stopped on the north side of Fleet Street, at Fetter Lane, sparing St. Dunstan's and the intervening block of houses. The house certainly dates from before the Fire, and it agrees with Aubrey's description.'

Date

1884

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Royal Academy of Arts

Notre référence

HRM26A45_321

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

53.5Mo (7.4Mo) / 31.9cm x 42.0cm / 3772 x 4960 (300dpi)

Mots clés

exterior outdoors signs building job music architecture shopping shop shops arts sign society window occupation British windows photography century bookshop Britain profession newspapers press B&W sheet music shop window bookseller shop windows Historic building Daily News 19th century black & white black and white B W nineteenth century fishmonger's outside newspaper photograph Henry Michael Drayton Drayton Alfred Dixon Marks Michael Henry Dixon & Son Dixon Henry & Son carbon print 19th-century fish shop Royal Academy of Arts Society for Photographing Relics of Old London Henry Dixon Alfred Marks