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Christopher Wren: Ichnographia urbis Londinii… (A Plan of the City of London, after the great FIRE, in the Year of Our Lord 1666.)   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Christopher Wren  (1632–1723)  wikidata:Q170373 s:en:Author:Christopher Michael Wren q:en:Christopher Wren
 
Christopher Wren
Alternative names
Sir Christopher Wren
Description British architect, astronomer, mathematician, physicist, anatomist and university teacher
Date of birth/death 20 October 1632 (in Julian calendarEdit this at Wikidata 25 February 1723 (in Julian calendarEdit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death East Knoyle London
Work period 1657-1710
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artist QS:P170,Q170373
Title
Ichnographia urbis Londinii… (A Plan of the City of London, after the great FIRE, in the Year of Our Lord 1666.)
Description
English: An extremely scarce 1744 map of London showing Sir Christopher Wren's plan for reconstructing the city following the 1666 Great Fire of London. In 1666 the Great Fire swept through the old Roman portions of London, laying waste to most of the original walled city. Christopher Wren, a well known architect of the period was quick to respond to the disaster as a opportunity to dramatically redesign and modernize London's center. Wren having been schooled in Paris envisioned an elaborate classically influenced reconstruction of the city with broad avenues meeting in a series of Piazzas. Despite, or perhaps because of, Wren's promptitude in producing a plan for a major post-fire reconstruction, his plan exhibits a number of dramatic errors. Wren did not take the city's topography into account and consequently much of the this plan is unfeasible. Despite claims to the contrary in the document itself, Wren's plan was never seriously considered by either the King or the Parliament. Today Wren's original 1666 plan is lost. This version was drawn in 1744 by the once fashionable engrave P. Fourdrinier, who claims to have replicated exactly a scarce 1724 original owned by the Earl of Pembroke. This map covers London along the north side of the Thames River from Strand Bridge to Great Tower Hill. Shows Wren's detailed reconstruction plan, along with the regions originally destroyed by the Great Fire. Identifies the proposed locations of parochial churches, markets, piazzas, bridges and warehouses. A vignette in the lower left quadrant depicts Thamesis, the river god for which the Thames River is named. The upper left quadrant bears the image of a phoenix, suggesting that, like the mythical bird, London too would rise from its own ashes and be reborn in fire. The lower quadrants of this plate include the map's title in both English and Latin as well as a detailed Explanation of the Plan. This plan is highly uncommon and rarely appears outside of institutional collections.
Date 1744 (dated)
Dimensions height: 19 in (48.2 cm); width: 27.5 in (69.8 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,19U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,27.5U218593
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