St Paul’s Cathedral in London

Thomas Hosmer Shepherd
16 January 1793 – 1864

not signed

St Paul’s Cathedral in London

cica. 1828

Steel Print

Wooden frame

beige Passepartout

glazed

Frame 32,6w x 28h

Picture 15,5w x 10,5h

Shepherd’s real break came in 1826 when Jones & Co. commissioned a series of views of London’s newest buildings, streets, and squares for engraving in Metropolitan Improvements (1827), with a text by the architect James Elmes. The success of the book spawned successors: Modern Athens (1828), a similar volume on Edinburgh, and another called Bath and Bristol … Displayed (1829). Between 1826 and 1831 Shepherd is supposed to have produced designs for some 450 plates. Many of these designs were reworked for similar projects later in Shepherd’s career, such as Charles Frederick Partington’s Natural History and Views of London (1835) and Charles Knight’s London (1841–4).