Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg, Londinium, c. 1572 - detail of London Bridge

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Date:1572 - 1580 (c.)

Description:London’s bridge in Shakespeare's time.

London Bridge was lined with houses and shops, and was a route regularly travelled by Shakespeare from his lodgings in the city to his work across the river at the Globe Theatre, in Southwark.

Full title: Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg, Londinium, [from Civitates orbis terrarum. Coloniae Agrippinae, 1572 - c.1580](hand-coloured)

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1570s

Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg, Londinium, c. 1572 - detail - decorative title panel

'Londinium': ancient capital of Shakespeare's England. London had been founded ...

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1590s

John Norden, The View of London Bridge from east to west, [1597]

London Bridge, looking upstream in Shakespeare's time. London's medieval bridge ...

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1610s

Jodocus Hondius, America, 1619 Map of the Americas - whole map, hand-coloured.

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