Fletcher (Henry). A View of the Stocks Market, J. Boydell, 1753, engraving after J. Nichols with contemporary hand-colouring and some later enhancement, title repeated in French, slight fraying to margins but not affecting image, 315 x 455 mm, mounted (Qty: 1) A view of the north front of the busy market dominated by the equestrian statue of Charles II trampling on Oliver Cromwell in the centre. The statue was originally designed to show King John Sobieski of Poland trampling on a Turk but remained unfinished. Sir Robert Vyner had the head of Charles II added and changed the Turk to Oliver Cromwell. Vyner's royalist credentials were thereby firmly established. The Stocks Market was - unsurprisingly - so-called because it was originally the site of the only permanent punishment stocks in the City. The market was cleared in 1737 for the building of Mansion House.
Fletcher (Henry). A View of the Stocks Market, J. Boydell, 1753, engraving after J. Nichols with contemporary hand-colouring and some later enhancement, title repeated in French, slight fraying to margins but not affecting image, 315 x 455 mm, mounted (Qty: 1) A view of the north front of the busy market dominated by the equestrian statue of Charles II trampling on Oliver Cromwell in the centre. The statue was originally designed to show King John Sobieski of Poland trampling on a Turk but remained unfinished. Sir Robert Vyner had the head of Charles II added and changed the Turk to Oliver Cromwell. Vyner's royalist credentials were thereby firmly established. The Stocks Market was - unsurprisingly - so-called because it was originally the site of the only permanent punishment stocks in the City. The market was cleared in 1737 for the building of Mansion House.
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