St Katharine's Hospital, Regent's Park, London: seen from the road. Steel engraving by W. Tombleson, 1827, after T. H. Shepherd.

  • Shepherd, Thomas H. (Thomas Hosmer)
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Dec. 8 1827
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38640i
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St Katharine's Hospital, Regent's Park, London: seen from the road. Steel engraving by W. Tombleson, 1827, after T. H. Shepherd. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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This church was originally founded near the Tower of London in 1148. With the building of St Katharine's dock in 1825, the church moved to Regent's Park. "[Ambrose] Poynter was chiefly an architect of churches and country houses. His best-known London work is the Tudor Gothic-style hospital and chapel of St Katharine in Regent's Park (1827)"--Oxford dictionary of national biography. During the first World War Queen Alexandra granted the church to her Danish compatriots

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London (3 Acton Place, Kingsland Road) : Jones & Co., Dec. 8 1827.

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1 print : etching, with engraving

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The Royal Hospital of St. Katherine, Regent's Park. To the Rev.d G.F. Nicolay, sen.r brother of the hospital, &c., this plate is respectfully inscribed. Drawn by Tho.s H. Shepherd. Engraved by W. Tombleson.

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Not in B. Adams, London illustrated, London, 1983

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Wellcome Collection 38640i

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