Bishopsgate Street: 1872 Frans Franken bizarre stories and unexpected connections

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Nevinson was influenced by the Italian Futurist Umberto Boccioni's use of forceful lines and hard edges to convey ideas of conflict

This sketch conveys the urbane elegance of Frederick Leighton (1830-96) shown at one of London's round of social engagements

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Bishopsgate Street: 1872 Frans Franken bizarre stories and unexpected connectionsAn illustration of Bishopsgate Street from 'London: a Pilgrimage' by Blanchard Jerrold and Gustave Dor, 1872. People can be seen gathered in the Sir Paul Pindar Stout House. The building had originally been built c. 1599 as a mansion for Sir Paul Pindar, a merchant and diplomat whose wealth in 1639 was estimated at 236,000. However he died in debt and by the 1780s the mansion had become a tavern. It was pulled down in 1890 and the carved oak front is