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Wenceslaus Hollar, artist and etcher
Richard Westall, artist
Ad Londinum epitomen & ocellum, 1647
Hollar's "Long View of London" shows the vista from the tower of what is now Southwark Cathedral. Unfortunately, labels for two builders were swapped by mistake: the one labeled "The Globe" is actually the Hope Theatre (also used for bear-baiting), and the one farther from the water, labeled "Beere bayting" is the second Globe Theatre, the 1614 replacement for Shakespeare's original building, which had burned in 1613. |