A 393-year-old panorama picture of old London town showing how the city looked before the great fire destroyed large parts of it has sold for more than £100,000.
The 7ft long engraving from the South Bank features the old St Paul's Cathedral and London Bridge, which has the gruesome sight of dozens of heads on spikes on its southern gate.
Both landmarks were rebuilt following the Great Fire of London in 1666.
However, The Tower of London never had onion style domes and The Globe theatre did not look like what is depicted. The reason for these errors is because Dutchman Claes Jansz Visscher never visited London in his life, yet still managed to engrave the masterpiece.
In the foreground, people can be seen trying to sneak views of performances through the windows of Shakepeare's Globe Theatre.
The 7ft image was engraved onto four tiles which then made a panorama. This 1625 picture looked out from the South Bank to show life in London at the time. The engraving only has two copies, one of which sold for more than £100,000 at an auction in London today. The other copy is stored in Washington
The Tower of London never had onion style domes and The Globe theatre did not look like what is depicted. The reason for these errors is because Dutchman Claes Jansz Visscher never visited London in his life, yet still managed to engrave the masterpiece
On the River Thames, which has only one bridge spanning it, there is a Royal procession of boats taking King Charles I westwards.
The spire of the famous Bow church is depicted as is Somerset House on the banks if the river.
On the hills beyond what is now the city of London, Horowe-on-the-Hill (Harrow) is marked as is the idyllic looking Stepney villa.
And Hampsted Mills - today posh Hampstead Heath - is depicted as a row of windmills.
Remarkably, the panorama's creator, the Dutch engraver and cartographer Claes Jansz Visscher, never visited London, so the work required some imagination.
The Visscher panorama gives insight into Tower Bridge. The southern gatehouse (above) shows the heads of traitors on a pike, used as a warning to ordinary Londoners, which proved effective. The houses on the bridge burned down just 10 years later, in a small fire in 1633. They would be meekly re-built, leading to the spread of the fire in 1666
The Bear Garden, left, was used for bear-baiting and popular animal sports and was called the Paris garden by ordinary Londoners. The Visscher panorama (above) is one of the earliest pictures of what the arena looked like, with Londoners trying to sneak a peek inside (left bottom). Also showing to the right is the Globe Theatre, famous for the play performances of William Shaskespeare. Again, Londoners look on outside the walls (centre bottom)
As a result, the Tower of London boasts some imaginative onion-styled domes.
This 1625 panorama is one of only two known copies to exist, with the other one residing in the Folger Library in Washington DC, US.
It is likely to have been made for a Dutch merchant as there was a burgeoning trade between London and Amsterdam at the beginning of the 17th century.
The panorama was consigned for sale with auctioneers Christie's by a European private collector and the creases indicate it had been folded over and tucked away throughout its existence.
It achieved a hammer price of £85,000, but with auction house fees added on the overall sum paid by the winning bidder, a private collector, was £106,250.
Julian Wilson, senior specialist at Christie's books and manuscripts department, said: 'The panorama commanded such a good price because of its rarity and quality.
'There is only one other example I am aware of of this panorama which is in the Folger Library in Washington DC.
The River Thames was awash with boats and trade back and forth, mainly to the Dutch port of Amsterdam. This was a time of progress, but Londoners were also worried about the threat of piracy. Unbelievably, a group called the Barbary Pirates from North Africa invaded a small part of Cornwall. Shocked and unprepared, around 60 locals were enslaved in Mount's Bay, Cornwall
The above picture shows Bow Church aqnd below it the River Thames. Before the fire, London was thriving but when this picture was depicted, there was political strife. King Charles I would marry Henrietta Maria that year, the daughter of Henry IV of France in Canterbury, Kent. The royal wedding was not popular with Londoners, since Maria was a Catholic
Hampsted Mills - today posh Hampstead Heath - is depicted as a row of windmills. The panorama's artist, Dutchman Claes Jansz Visscher, never visited London. But how did he do it? Some claim he used maps of London, and this is how he got things in the right place but inaccurate depictions. Others claim he used earlier sketches and copied those. But that mystery adds value to the engraving, which sold for more than £100,000
'There are earlier views of London but not on this impressive scale and the quality of the engraving is fantastic.
'It is fascinating to get this view of London from before the great fire when St Paul's Cathedral and Tower Bridge were destroyed.
'Also, there is a wonderful humanity to the panorama with people peering through the theatre windows in the foreground and the large ships on the Thames, giving a great insight into the way of life at that time.'
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