United Kingdom | Europe | London | Greater London | City of London | Thames | London Bridge | Tower of London
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Recent Acquisitions - Summer 2005 (Yale Center for British Art, 2006-05-19 - 2006-08-14)
Publications:
Ian Tyers, The tree-ring analysis of 23 panel paintings from the Yale Center for British Art , New Haven : dendrochronological consultancy report 470, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2011, p. 9, CC78.3 .T94 2011 (YCBA)
Gallery Label:
Claude de Jongh’s view shows Old London Bridge, begun in the twelfth century and now remembered in the nursery rhyme “London Bridge is Falling Down.” Over the course of centuries it became crowded with commercial and residential buildings, and until 1729 it was the only crossing over the river Thames. The view is from the west looking toward the Thames Estuary. The faint silhouette of the Tower of London can just be seen on the left of the composition. On the south side of the river was Southwark, home to the Rose, the Swan, and the Globe theaters, where the works of Shakespeare and his contemporaries were performed. Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2016