Between the Virtual and the Actual: Robert Barker's Panorama of London and the Multiplication of the Real in late eighteenth-century London
Peter Otto
University of Melbourne
Figure 1
David Caspar Friedrich, “The Wanderer above a Sea of Mists” (1818), oil on canvas, 74.8 x 94.8 cm (29½ x 37 3/8 in.).
Reproduced with the kind permission of the Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg / Elke Walford.
Figure 2
“A Section of the Rotunda in Leicester Square, in which is exhibited The Panorama”. Aquatint from Robert Mitchell’s Plans and Views in Perspective, with Descriptions, of Buildings Erected in England and Scotland (London: Wilson & Co., 1801).
Reproduced by permission of the British Library.
Figure 3
“Panorama De Londres”. Orientation Plan for the Panorama of London, 1792. Guildhall Library, City of London.
Figure 4
Karl August Richter, cyclorama, taken from the Frauenkirche in Dresden. Engraving, 1824 (Nordost-Bibliothek, Lüneburg).
Reproduced with the kind permission of Nordost-Bibliothek, Lüneburg, who hold the copyright for this work (Sk-D5).
Figure 5
Thomas Hornor, “Plan of the Town and Parish of Kingston Upon Thames; with a view of Kingston from the Hill and of the Market Place taken from near the Post Office” (1813).
Reproduced by permission of the British Library.
Figure 6
Frederick Birnie (aquatint after Henry Aston Barker), “A View of London taken from the top of Albion Mills, Blackfriars”, 1792, no. 1. Guildhall Library, City of London. (“The City with St. Paul’s Cathedral”.)
Figure 7
Frederick Birnie (aquatint after Henry Aston Barker), “A View of London taken from the top of Albion Mills, Blackfriars”, 1792, no. 2. Guildhall Library, City of London. (“View east across the roof of the Albion Mills showing the eastern part of the City, London Bridge and Southwark”.)
Figure 8
Frederick Birnie (aquatint after Henry Aston Barker), “A View of London taken from the top of Albion Mills, Blackfriars”, 1792, no. 3. Guildhall Library, City of London. (South-east London from the Albion Mills, with Sydenham hills on the horizon”.)
Figure 9
Frederick Birnie (aquatint after Henry Aston Barker), “A View of London taken from the top of Albion Mills, Blackfriars”, 1792, no. 4. Guildhall Library, City of London. (“Albion Street, looking south across St. George’s Circus”.)
Figure 10
Frederick Birnie (aquatint after Henry Aston Barker), “A View of London taken from the top of Albion Mills, Blackfriars”, 1792, no. 5. Guildhall Library, City of London. (“Albion Place, with Adelphi Terrace and Somerset House in the distance”.)
| Auteur : | Peter Otto |
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| Titre : | Between the Virtual and the Actual: Robert Barker's Panorama of London and the Multiplication of the Real in late eighteenth-century London |
| Revue : | Romanticism on the Net, Numéro 46, mai 2007 |
| URI : | http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/016130ar |
| DOI : | 10.7202/016130ar |
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