The Ghosts of Old London
by Andrew
A collection of photographs, baked in sepia, show the crooked jigsaw of Elizabethan facades and frames against the Empire columns and cheap brickwork of Victorian shops, offices and slums. But it's often the transient objects - bread loves stacked behind painted windows, cart horses pulling hansom cabs - and ghostly, sinister figures, their faces smudged by the lengthy exposure that draw the eye.
At the back of St Bartholomew’s, Smithfield, 1877.
The Ghosts of Old London
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