Signed l.r.: Fred Shepherd

Watercolour

23.5 by 16.5 cm., 9 ¼ by 6 ½ in.

The Shepherd family were amongst the best known and most engraved families of topographical artists of London in the mid nineteenth century. This was partly helped by the patronage of Frederick Crace who worked as Commissioner for sewers and employed the family to make records of streets prior to them being swept away for this very necessary purpose. The present work depicts a famous and now long since lost house in the heart of the City of London which had once been the birthplace of the poet Alexander Pope.