Date:1572 - 1580 (c.)
Description:London's City walls and the fields beyond in Shakespeare's time. Close beyond the city walls lay fields and orchards. The engraving shows the wooden frames on which laundresses would hang fabric to dry. Within the city can be seen some of the hundred churches that were the centre of each parish of closely packed houses, mostly built of timber, with tiled roofs. This was the city that a century later, in September 1666, was to be devastated by the 'Great Fire of London'. Full title: Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg, Londinium, [from Civitates orbis terrarum. Coloniae Agrippinae, 1572 - c.1580](hand-coloured)
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