This is a lovely and detailed engraving of the Great Fire of London taken from a position on the south side of the river. With London Bridge and Southwark in the foreground. Published in Merian’s ‘Theatrum Europaeum’. There were a total of 21 volumes in this huge work. The book was begun in 1635 by Matthaus Merian the Elder and continued by his son of the same name, the Younger, upon his death in 1650. Shirley BL G.Meri 1a.