Oil picture. 20½ by 15¼ in.
This painting is wrongly called on the frame “Southwark Bridge,” the
first stone of which was not laid until 1815. It represents the first
Blackfriars Bridge, originally Pitt Bridge, designed by R. Mylne and
built between 1760 and 1769. The Temple Gardens are shown to the left
and St. Paul’s beyond them.
R. Burford is chiefly known as the painter and proprietor of panoramas
in Leicester Square and in the Strand. He also exhibited at the Royal
Academy from 1812 to 1818. The date on the frames of this and the
companion picture (No. 80) is 1808, which seems too early for such
mature work, as he was born in 1792 and would therefore have been
only sixteen at the time.
By R. BURFORD (1792-1861).
_Lent by Mr. Colin Agnew._