Leopold’s View of London poetry [Title-page] Anglorum Indoles Studia et

[Title-page] Anglorum Indoles Studia et Actiones

D’Après de Mannevillette (1707-1780) was a practical seaman as well as a mapmaker

and had been captured by the French in 1647

light toning where previously mounted and framed

Adams O-200

Leopold’s View of London poetry [Title-page] Anglorum Indoles Studia etThis is a view showing London before the Great Fire, from the South Bank of the Thames, including London Bridge and old St Pauls. Principal buildings are numbered, corresponding to a key on banners carried by putti in the upper corners of the image, on either side of a central banderole. It is not a view of London which would have been familiar to contemporary Londoners. Leopold was active in the first two decades of the 18th century, the figures in