UPM London Bridge and the Tower. from a M.S. of the Poems of Charles. Duke of Orleans. British Museum. By WILLIAM BENHAM, D.D., F.S. A. Rector of St. Edmund the King, Lombard Street, AND CHARLES WELCH, F.S.A. Librarian to the Corporation of London. SEELEY AND CO. LIMITED, GREAT RUSSELL STREET 1901 1-13 2021030 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS LONDON BRIDGE AND THE TOWER. From a Manuscript of the Poems of A TOURNAMENT. From a Manuscript of the Romance of the Sire Jehan de P. 10 From a RICHARD II. RIDING OUT OF LONDON TO THE WAR IN IRELAND. RICHARD II. DELIVERED BY BOLINGBROKE TO THE CITIZENS OF LONDON. P. 34 THE FUNERAL OF RICHARD II. From a Manuscript of Froissart's Chronicles. P. 74 THE PRINCIPAL PARTS OF A PEN DRAWING OF LONDON FROM WESTMINSTER Of this Flemish artist very little is known. There exists a rescript of Philip II. addressed to Margaret of Parma, regent of the Low Countries, giving him permission to remove with his goods and to settle in Spain, from which it is supposed that he was in the King's service. The drawing was made, probably for Philip, before the fall of the spire of St. Paul's in 1561. It is unfinished, blank spaces being left for Whitehall, Bridewell, and some other buildings. There are also memoranda on the drawing which show that the artist intended to colour it, leaden roofs, for instance, being marked "blau." The Bodleian Library possesses forty-seven other drawings of his, two of which are here reproduced: one of Whitehall, intended no doubt to fill the blank space in the large view, and one of Greenwich Palace from the Observatory Hill, which is coloured in a simple manner. It is not improbable that Wyngaerde left England on the death of Queen Mary. A copy of the drawing of London, much altered and embellished, was made and engraved by N. Whittock in 1849. |