Whitbread's New Plan of London - a map of Victorian London by Josiah Whitbread, 1858 art print poster canvas gift Surface:Art paper 230gsm Several traitors’ heads on iron

Several traitors’ heads on iron spikes are shown atop a tower at the southern gate of London Bridge

His six-volume work was inspired by Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia

Almost indistinguishable from the original Tudor period engraving

He produced a vast amount of work in paintings

and offered up their thanksgivings

Whitbread's New Plan of London - a map of Victorian London by Josiah Whitbread, 1858 art print poster canvas gift Surface:Art paper 230gsm Several traitors’ heads on ironThe Whitbread's New Plan of London map was first published in 1851 just prior to the opening of the "Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations", or simply the Great Exhibition. The central London and its iconic locations, buildings and bridges are depicted by Whitbread in great detail and labelled. Josiah Whitbread was a London based map publisher, active in the middle to later part of the 19th century, with the company address at 142