A General View of London, 1784 Bookends His pessimistic view of humanity

His pessimistic view of humanity as a mass of drunken

Tom Rakewell loses his second fortune at the gambling tables at the White's Club and rages at his ill luck

Soane used both Ionic and Corinthan orders extensively in his practice

The original painting by Da Vinci was completed around 1508 and was an oil painting depicting a naked female (Leda) embracing a swan

The four paintings in Hogarth's final 'modern moral subject' series was first purchased by Soane in 1823 for the sum of 1650 guineas at an auction of the effects of Mrs Garrick

A General View of London, 1784 Bookends His pessimistic view of humanityA general view of London, the Capital of England, taken from an eminence near Islington was published by Alexander Hogg in 1784. It shows the city from a vantage point near Islington, at this point just a village in the country, and takes in most of London with the Tower to the left and Westminster to the right. Folding maps evolved in the mid 18th century when the extending system of properly maintained turnpike roads made long distance travel