The panorama testifies to London’s magnetic attraction as a city and the capital of a world power. Its focus on London on as a seat of political power complements the Rhinebeck Panorama, which has mercantile London at its heart, exemplified by the City, the Pool of London and the wharves of Bermondsey. Furthermore, in contrast to the Rhinebeck Panorama, which looks west, Prévost’s view looks in all directions at once, revealing an astonishingly low-rise city, punctuated only by church steeples and factory chimneys, and the dominating mass of St Paul’s.