Watercolour. 21½ by 16 in.
The first Royal Exchange was founded by Sir Thomas Gresham, being
opened by Queen Elizabeth 23 January 1570-71. It was destroyed in
the Great Fire.
The second Exchange, designed by Edward Jarman or Jerman, City
surveyor, and begun 1667, was, like the earlier one, a quadrangular
building, with a clock tower on the chief front facing Cornhill.
Business was transacted in the covered walk or cloister within. The
statue of Charles II in the centre was by Grinling Gibbons.
This view was drawn from the north-west corner of the walk; the
pinnacles of St. Michael’s church tower, Cornhill, appear above the
building.
Unsigned. Date probably about 1810.
_Lent by Sir E. Coates._