Regent's Quadrant c. 1886

Regent's Quadrant c. 1886Regent's Quadrant. Albumen print taken for the London Stereoscopic Society. Following the decline in popularity of stereoscopic photographs in the late 1860s, the stereoscopic society began to concentrate on taking and marketing conventional photoraphic views, including London's better known sites.

One of 19th-century London's most celebrated balloonists was Charles Green

Cases were lifted from the cold storage holds on board ships and deposited into the large airy transit sheds at each dock

Regent's Quadrant

while the proprietress is washing up

to their own surprise

others converted to other uses

A market is in progress

The docks were built in 1827-28

visible to anyone who cares to look

Asia and Australasia

Tom overturns a watchman's box

The painting was acquired by the London Museum as a work by Charles Hunt and is signed and dated accordingly at bottom left