The city of London has long been a subject for panoramas by artists, mapmakers, and topographers. Many of their works have this as their title.
A panorama of London by Claes Van Visscher, 1616. Old St Paul's Cathedral had lost its spire by this time. The two theatres on the foreground (Southwark) side of the Thames are The Bear Garden and The Globe. The large church in the foreground is St Mary Overie, now Southwark Cathedral.
Long View of London from Bankside, a panorama of London by Wenceslaus Hollar, 1647. This panorama is notable for being rendered all from one viewpoint.
Panorama of modern London, taken from the Golden Gallery of St Paul's Cathedral, 2007
Panorama of London taken from Greenwich Park, 2007
The Great Fire of London was a major conflagration that occurred in central London from Sunday 2 September to Wednesday 5 September 1666, gutting the medieval City of London inside the old Roman city
Panorama of London
…by Wenceslaus Hollar, 1647. This panorama is notable for being rendered all from one viewpoint. Another by Hollar, 1666 London before and after the Great fire of 1666, by Wenceslas Hollar These two images (when joined) show a panorama of London before (top) and after (bottom) the fire Many modern panoramic photographs…
The Great Fire of London, depicted by an unknown painter (1675), as it would have appeared from a boat in the vicinity of Tower Wharf on the evening of Tuesday, 4 September 1666. To the left is London Bridge; to the right, the Tower of London. Old St Paul's Cathedral is in the distance, surrounded by the tallest flames.
A panorama of the City of London in 1616 by Claes Visscher. The tenement housing on London Bridge (far right) was a notorious death-trap in case of fire; much would be destroyed in a fire in 1633.