NOTES: The Monument, a colossal Doric column, was built to commemorate the Great Fire of London which began in a baker's house in Pudding Lane on Sunday 2nd September 1666. The great conflagration was finally extinguished on Wednesday 5th September, after destroying the greater part of the City.
NOTES: The Monument, a colossal Doric column, was built to commemorate the Great Fire of London which began in a baker's house in Pudding Lane on Sunday 2nd September 1666. The great conflagration was finally extinguished on Wednesday 5th September, after destroying the greater part of the City.
NOTES: It is likely this drawing dates from between 1751 and 1754, during Stuart's extensive travels in Greece.This image also appeared as an engraving in Stuart & Revett's 'The Antiquities of Athens' (London, 1787), vol. II, ch. ii, pl. II.