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War damage: View of St Paul's Cathedral from the south east, with rubble in the foreground. Signed and dated.
Crayon
Street of Ink, Fleet Street, signed. Richards R.E. Etcher of architectural subjects. Exh. at The R.A., R.E., and on the Continent. Published pencil sketchbooks of Oxford, Venice, Florence, Rome, Windsor and Eton. Lived in London and died in 1932.
Etching
City of London from above Waterloo Bridge. Waterloo Bridge in the foreground, under construction. Signed C.R.W. Nevinson
Bodycolour
Carefully observed depiction of women and children feeding pigeons at St Paul's. Ladies selling bags of bird feed stand by and a crowd of men surround them. In the background a woman boards an omnibus. Signed and dated.
Etching
Newgate Prison, designed by George Dance the Younger, shown at intersection of Giltspur St, Newgate St. (L), Old Bailey & Skinner St. (R). 2 omnibuses with open top decks on L. & hansom cabs, covered carts & a hay cart are amongst other vehicles. Dome of St Paul's seen beyond Newgate & on L. are couple of early telegraph poles.
Oil on canvas
London, winter. Foreground dominated by seagulls, barges & cranes of warehouses which lined Lambeth riverfront E. of Waterloo Bridge; in middle distance square shot tower. Part of City seen in distance left, with St. Bride's, City of London School for Boys, St. Paul's, Monument & Blackfriars Bridge visible. Exhib. Leicester Galls.: Oct 1928 (41), Paintings & Watercolours by C.R.W. Nevinson; May-Jun 1947 (29), Memorial Exhib. of pics by C.R.W.Nevinson. Watercolour.
Tempera on board
'Amongst the Nerves of the World' by C.R.W. Nevinson showing Fleet Street crowded with traffic and pedestrians from upper storey window looking east. Includes covered top buses, train crossing Ludgate Hill railway bridge. Beyond St. Martin's church, Ludgate and dome and west, towers of St Paul's Cathedral. Telegraph wires and perspective lines crisscross picture. Exhibition: Leicester Galleries: October 1930 (43) Paintings, Etchings and Lithographs by C.R.W. Nevinson; May-June 1947 (35) Mem. Exhibition of pictures of C.R.W. Nevinson.
Oil on canvas
A Stirling bomber is shown in foreground centre, surrounded by a crowd of spectators, with ruined buildings behind. In distance on left the spire of St Vedast's, Foster Lane is visible & on R. the tower & spire of St Mary-le-Bow. Signed & dated bottom R. Exhibited Cartwright Memorial Hall, Bradford, Spring 1945 (279). Hayes Cat. No. 32.
Oil on canvas
Oil painting showing a modern city scene taken from a tall building. In the foreground is a high rise block.
Oil on canvas
Evening in the City of London. Gaunt outlines of City buildings after the Blitz: presumably painted from the tower of St. Mary-le-Bow, the view stretches from the river (left) to the dome of St. Paul's & area N. of it. The strong diagonal on the R. is Cheapside. Bomberg taught at Borough Polytechic from 1945-1953 during which time his inspirational and unorthodox teaching methods much influenced the work of Auerbach and Kossof. Bomberg said: 'I want to translate the life of a great city... into art that shall not be photographic, but expressive'. Label text Barbican exhibition 2002. Valuation: 13-03-01 = £100,000
Oil on canvas
The Spirit of London during the Blitz. An air raid warden directs to shelter a woman with 2 children and an old man. In background the sky is criss-crossed with searchlights, the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral is partly screened by smoke & buildings on fire.
Oil on canvas board
Looking at St. Paul's from top of Post Office Headquarters in St. Martin's le Grand. Preparatory drawing for oil commissioned by Courtaulds for their board room. The Courtaulds building stands on L. of St. Martin's le Grand. (Courtaulds moved to West End 1964), opposite Post Office building with its bomb damaged roof. Signed and dated.
Ink & watercolour on paper on board
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Gouache
Panorama from the Stone Gallery of St Paul's: 1/7: looking east towards Wren's bombed St. Mary le Bow (rebuilt 1956-62). In the background parts of the Bank of England, Royal Exchange and Mansion House can be picked out, along with the Midland Bank byuilding in Poultry, St Michael, Cornhill, St Stephen Walbrook, and the Port of London Authority building. The foreground is of bombed sites between Watling Street and Cheapside. Signed by the artist. This is one of seven watercolours painted by Wright showing a 260 degree panorama, for which he provided a key drawing on seven boards (not exactly corresponding to the paintings) identifying many other more distant landmarks. The missing 100 degrees is covered by three other linked paintings which do not, however, abut with the ends of these seven.
Watercolour
South Bank by Arturo di Stefano. The view taken from the South Bank, a little further on from the National Theatre, looks east towards the City. The City is dominated by St Paul's Cathedral and with its white buildings recalls William Morris' dream of London as 'small and clean'. The tree lined promenade on the right and the Thames on the left reinforce this carefully composed vision of London.
Oil on canvas
Panorama: St Paul's from Bankside, Panoramic view of the City of London taken from Bankside Gallery & Gardens prominent in foreground. Bankside Power Station is omitted but its coal depot, away from the bank, is shown. The panorama is framed by Blackfriars Bridge on the L. & Southwark on the R. Commissioned by the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers (a print is commissioned annually to give away to members), RE. This print was not intended to be sold commercially - artist's proof. Signed.
Brown ink
The New Globe. Shakespeare's Globe Theatre under construction, Bankside, Southwark. In view, the west section of the circular theatre. All that stands of the building is its timber frame. The Thames and north bank buildings can be seen through the beams including St Paul's Cathedral and Vintner's Court. No. 16 of 100.
Etching
Ludgate Circus
Photograph
Towards 2000. The final plate in Phillip's River series, shows the modern city with high rise towers and office buildings dwarfing the churches of Wren and Hawksmoor. The river is now spanned by the identifiable Westminster, Hungerford and Waterloo bridges and cabs and buses are at a standstill trying to cross them. The Houses of Parliament still occupies the foreground and a motorised Thames cruisers sails towards the bridge. The Roman pavement and the head of Hadrian can still be clearly seen as the archaeological substrata of London's river, waiting to be discovered by the archaeologists who investigate the foreshore outside the House of Parliament.
Etching
View from Clifford Chance looking along London Wall. A highly energetic and abstract image where the view is dominated by high-rise office blocks and an infrastructure of crane. Although there is little space, the mood is one of celebration. The drawing was made during Creffield's residency at Clifford Chance's offices. He was able to occupy upper storey offices and respond to various views of the city. These were exhibited at Clifford Chance in December 1999 as 'A Year of Saturdays'.
Charcoal drawing with white highlights
Ludgate Hill looking east toward the south west tower of St Paul's cathedral. A photograph by George Reid who photographed the streets and buildings of London, and the activities in them, in the 1920's and 1930's.
Photograph
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St Paul's Cathedral

St Paul’s Cathedral is a London landmark and a British icon.

A cathedral dedicated to St Paul has overlooked the City of London since 604 A.D. In 2004, the Diocese of London celebrated its 1,400th anniversary.

The current cathedral, the fourth to occupy the Ludgate Hill site, was designed by court architect Sir Christopher Wren. It was built between 1675 and 1710 after its predecessor was destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666.

St Paul’s is built of Portland stone in a late Renaissance to baroque style. Its impressive dome, inspired by St Peter’s Basilica in Rome, is the third largest in the world. It rises 108 metres (365 feet) to the cross at its summit.

People and events of the utmost importance to the country have been celebrated, mourned and commemorated at St Paul’s since the first service took place in 1697. Significant events and services in St Paul’s 20th century history include:

1901: A memorial service for Queen Victoria, held at the same time as her burial took place at Windsor.

1935: King George V’s Silver Jubilee service.

1939: The St Paul’s Fire Watch is re-formed to help City firemen fight the first incendiary bombs of the Second World War.

1940: The cathedral is a target during the Blitz.

1944: The cathedral bells, silent earlier in the war, ring out to celebrate the liberation of Paris.

1945: Ten simple services are held to mark V.E. Day, the end of the war in Europe. An estimated 35,000 people attend.

1951: King George VI opens the Festival of Britain from St Paul’s.

1964: United States human rights campaigner Martin Luther King preaches at St Paul’s on his way to Oslo to collect the Nobel Peace Prize.

1965: The funeral of former Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill.

1968: St Paul’s reflects the mood of the ‘swinging sixties’ by holding a Festival of Youth, featuring pop singer Mary Hopkin.

1977: A service is held to mark Queen Elizabeth II’s Silver Jubilee.

1981: The marriage of Charles, Prince of Wales, to Lady Diana Spencer.

1992: The Queen Mother attends the 40th anniversary celebrations of the Friends of St Paul’s.

1995: A 50th anniversary service for V.E. Day, the end of the Second World War in Europe.

1997: The 300th anniversary of St Paul’s Cathedral.

2000: Service celebrating the 100th birthday of Her Majesty the Queen Mother.

St Paul’s symbolised the strength of London and Britain during the Second World War. Photographs of the cathedral amid the destruction of the Blitz are among the most defining images of the 20th century.

The cathedral’s prominent and recognisable form on the skyline is protected from many vantage points. The height of new buildings within or close to the sightline between St Paul’s and selected places is limited specifically to retain the impressive view. Unobstructed views of the cathedral can be seen from King Henry VIII’s Mound in Richmond Park, from Parliament Hill by Hampstead Heath and from the central London bridges of Waterloo and Hungerford.

In 2000, a major restoration and facility upgrade programme began at the cathedral. It is scheduled for completion in 2008.
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