A New Map of London, 1800 Exclusive the Monk's Parlour to satirise

the Monk's Parlour to satirise this style

The first in a set of four paintings which document and satirise a parliamentary election in Oxfordshire

Pessimists saw loss and decline

and followed the hugely successful 'A Harlot's Progress' (1730)

they all ran the risk of kidnap and sale to plantations

A New Map of London, 1800 Exclusive the Monk's Parlour to satiriseRobert Laurie & James Whittle's copper engraved map of London was published in 1800, just a few years prior to the laying out of Regent's Park. It shows that although London had rapidly expanded over the last hundred years or so, open fields still lapped the edge of Hyde Park, the Isle of Dogs was still largely marshland and Islington and Hackney were still villages. Folding maps evolved in the mid 18th century when the extending system of properly