Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.21239

    South view of the Foundling Hospital

    Date
    1748
    Creator
    Unknown, Engraver
    Object type
    Library reference
    R62588
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 145mm
    width (print): 215mm
    Subject
    Description
    Panorama showing an elevation of the Foundling Hospital, London, established in 1739 and constructed from 1742, by Thomas Coram. The building is shown with fashionable ladies and gentlemen of the period promenading in the foreground. There is a key below, indicating: ‘1. The Wing already built. 2. Chapel now Erecting. 3. A Wing to be built’.

    Plate associated with the review article ‘Extracts from The Nursing and Management of Children…A pamphlet published by order of the Committee for transacting the Affairs of the Foundling Hospital’. The Gentleman’s Magazine, and historical chronicle…[edited] by Sylvanus Urban, v.18, (1748), pp.396-399.

    Inscribed with the title, below: ‘South View of Foundling Hospital’. Inscribed lower right ‘T. Jefferys sculp’.
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