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Vauxhall

Over London at Night: Gasworks, Ballooning and the Visual Gas Field

Jennifer Tucker

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W. Read, Drawing the Retorts at the Great Gas Light Establishment at Brick Lane, frontispiece in The Monthly Magazine, February 1821, 1821, aquatint, 19.6 × 24.7 cm. Digital image courtesy of Wikimedia (public domain).
Kelmscott

Printed Ecologies: William Morris and the Rural Thames

Sarah Mead Leonard

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William Morris, Snakeshead, printed by Thomas Wardle & Co. (Leek), 1876, block print on cotton, 100 × 63 cm. Collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (CIRC.46-1956). Digital image courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (all rights reserved).
Westminster

Ships and Souvenirs: Itineraries of the Golden Jubilee

Shalini LeGall

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James McNeill Whistler, Tilbury, 1887, etching (first state of three), 8.1 × 17.6 cm. The Lunder Collection, Colby College Museum of Art (2013.488). Digital image courtesy of Colby College Museum of Art (all rights reserved).
Tooley Street

The River Seemed Almost Turned to Blood: The Tooley Street Fire

Nancy Rose Marshall

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Read & Co., The Great Fire Near London Bridge Saturday, June 22nd 1861 (detail), 1861, lithograph, 41.1 x 34.8 cm. Digital image courtesy of Alamy Stock Photo (All rights reserved).
West India Docks

The Surrounding Great Work: Memory, Erasure, and Curating the Built Environment of the West India Docks, 1802–2022

Aleema Gray and Danielle Thom

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James Hakewill, Rose Hall great house, in James Hakewill, Picturesque Tour of the Island of Jamaica (London: Hurst and Robinson, 1825), 1825, watercolour. Collection of the Boston Public Library. Digital image courtesy of Internet Archive (public domain).
Battersea

Whistler and Battersea: The Aesthetics of Erasure and Redevelopment

Jon Newman

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James McNeill Whistler, Variations in Flesh Colour and Green, The Balcony, 1864–1873, oil on wood panel, 61.4 × 48.5 cm. Collection of the Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Gift of Charles Lang Freer (F1892.23a-b). Digital image courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution (public domain).
Chelsea

Women in Whistler’s images of Chelsea and the Thames

Patricia de Montfort

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James McNeill Whistler, Variations in Pink and Grey: Chelsea, 1871–1872, oil on canvas, 82 × 62.7 cm. Collection of the Freer Gallery of Art, National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institute, Gift of Charles Lang Freer (F1902.249a-b). Digital image courtesy of Smithsonian Institute (CC0 1.0).