Lot 147: GEORGE BELTON MOORE 1806-1875

signed l.r.: GB Moore/1830

pen and brown ink and watercolour over pencil heightened with bodycolour

54 by 37 cm., 21 1/4 by 14 1/2 in.

London, Royal Academy, 1830, no.1062

H.L.Mallalieu, The Dictionary of British Watercolour Artists up to 1920, Vol II, 1979, p.458 (illus)

This view of Fish Street Hill, then the main road leading to London Bridge, shows one of Christopher Wren's finest achievements, the Monument. A fluted Doric column, it was built by order of an Act of Parliament to commemorate the Great Fire of London of 1666. The Monument is 202 feet high, the distance between the column and the house in Pudding Lane where the fire started. Beyond the Monument is St.Magnus church. It is likely that cattle on the street are being driven to Smithfield market nearby