Thomas Hosmer Shepherd 1793-1864

including St Paul's Cathedral, Bishopsgate Street to the corner of Threadneedle Street, a school on Dowgate Hill, the Bank of England, Drury Lane Theatre, the Royal College of Surgeons Lincolns Inn Fields, Temple Church, New Church Camden Town, Asylum on Westbridge Road, Public Baths Great Coram Street, St Barnabas Kings Square, the Kings Entrance to the House of Lords Old Palace Yard, Westminster Abbey, Shaftesbury House Aldersgate Street, Southwark Town Hall, the Old Bailey Newgate, Picadilly from Coventry Street, Temple Bar from the Strand, Stationers Hall, St Paul's Church Covent Garden, St Mary Aldermanbury, Cordwainers Hall Distaff Lane, Lincoln's Inn Hall Chapel and Chancery Court, Duke of York's School Chelsea, All Hallows London Wall, St Nicholas Cole Abbey, All Hallows Bread Street, St James' Garlick Hill, St Michael Crooked Lane, St Mary Somerset Upper Thames Street, the Military Club House Haymarket Theatre and part of the Opera Colonnade from Regents Street and the New Opening to St Martin's Church from Pall Mall east     



thirty-two, thiry-one signed, most inscribed with title verso and ten dated 1824 and 1839



brown wash over pencil, mostly mounted



with James Elmes, Metropolitan Improvements; or London in the Nineteenth Century, 1834 and William Gray Fearnside and Thomas Harral, eds., The History of London, 1838

Shepherd, the son of an architectural draughtsman, was commissioned by Frederick Crace, a collector of maps and views of London, to make a large series of drawings of London.  With drawings such as the present works Shepherd also illustrated a number of publications including, J.Elmes, Metropolitan Improvements, 1827, J.Elmes, London and its Environs in the Nineteenth century, 1829, and W.G.Fearnside and T.Harral (eds.), The History of London, 1838.  Two of these publications are included in the present lot