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Grand Panorama of London from the Thames : ウィキペディア英語版 | Grand Panorama of London from the Thames The ''Grand Panorama of London from the Thames'' is an 1844 woodcut engraving depicting the north bank of the Thames river in London (then the world's largest city) running from Western Stone Wharf by the unfinished Houses of Parliament (the tower to house Big Ben is not yet constructed) to the Belfast, Cork, Leith and Glasgow Steam Wharf, just east of St Katharine Docks; a distance of approximately ten miles. An illustration, based on the engraving, was published as four separate supplements (each sheet measuring 31 and a half inches by 42 and a half inches) to the ''Pictorial Times'' and when joined together were approximately 12 feet in length. ==Background== Early-Victorian periodicals of the 1840s such as the ''Illustrated London News'' and ''Punch'' magazines used wood engravings to illustrate their stories. The ''Pictorial Times'', founded in 1843 by Henry Vizetelly (1820-1894), with his elder brother James Thomas and Andrew Spottiswoode, was a rival to the ''Illustrated London News'' and presented the ''Grand Panorama of London from the Thames'' as a gift to its subscribers. The engraving was the brainchild of the ''Pictorial Timess editor, Henry Vizetelly, who was an artist and journalist and who had offered a similar gift whilst working with the ''Illustrated London News'' a few years previously. His own sketches of London would be pieced together to form engravings. The ''Pictorial Times'' produced handbills in late 1844 announcing 'for all persons, the largest engraving in the world, the Grand Panorama of London from the Thames, fourteen feet in length!' The panorama appeared on 11 January, 1845. Though 'Engraved by Henry Vizetelly' appeared on the panorama it is assumed that it was engraved at the Vizetelly establishment rather than by Henry Vizetelly himself.
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