London Impressions: Etchings and Pictures in Photogravure

								


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LONDON IMPRESSIONS

  LONDON
IMPRESSIONS


ETCHINGS AND PICTURES
IN PHOTOGRAVURE BY
WILLIAM HYDE


AND ESSAYS BY
ALICE MEYNELL

  WESTMINSTER
ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE AND CO.
2 WHITEHALL GARDENS
1898

LIST OF PICTURES
FULL-PAGE PLATES

  THE RIVER                  ETCHING           Frontispiece


WESTMINSTER ABBEY          PHOTOGRAVURE    facing page  2


TERRIBLE LONDON                 Do.               "       4


AN IMPRESSION                   Do.               "       6


END OF A WINTER DAY             Do.               "       8


UTILITARIAN LONDON              Do.               "      10


KENSINGTON GARDENS              Do.               "      12


NIGHT SCENE, BERMONDSEY         Do.               "      14


THE CLOCK TOWER, WESTMINSTER    Do.               "      16


ST. PAUL'S AT DAWN              Do.               "      18


WATERLOO BRIDGE                 Do.               "      20


BELOW BRIDGE                    Do.               "      22


ST. PAUL'S FROM WATLING STREET  Do.               "      24


THE VICTORIA TOWER              Do.               "      28

PLATES IN THE TEXT

  ST. PAUL'S IN A STORM      PHOTOGRAVURE     On Title-page


A CHEAP MARKET                  Do.               page  v


A FORGOTTEN CORNER              Do.                 "     1


THE NERVES OF LONDON            Do.                 "     6


THE EMBANKMENT AT NIGHT         Do.                 "     9


TREES                      ETCHING                  "    12


THE LAST BOAT              PHOTOGRAVURE             "    19


BELOW BRIDGE                    Do.                 "    22


A BACK STREET                   Do.                 "    24


A COFFEE STALL                  Do.                 "    26


RAIN, SMOKE, AND TRAFFIC        Do.                 "    29


WESTMINSTER                ETCHING                  "    31

LIST OF ESSAYS

                        PAGE


THE LONDON SUNDAY        1


A PILGRIM                4


THE EFFECT OF LONDON     6


THE CLIMATE OF SMOKE     9


THE TREES               12


CHELSEA REACH           16


THE SPRING              19


BELOW BRIDGE            22


THE ROADS               26


THE SMOULDERING CITY    29

THE LONDON SUNDAY

This seems to be a thing that all exclaim against, and but few see. The
phrase is never varied--a sure sign of lack of experience. One cries, 'Oh,
the London Sunday!' and another, 'It must be too dreadful for foreigners!'
and before the topic disappears something yet vaguer has been said, in a