Catalogue of a Collection of Early Drawings and Pictures of London: With Some Contemporary Furniture

In 1902, as London hurtled toward the modern age, the Burlington Fine Arts Club mounted an exhibition capturing a city on the verge of vanishing. This catalog preserves that urgent act of documentation: hundreds of drawings, paintings, and prints depicting London's historic streets, landmarks, and neighborhoods before they were swept away by progress. Yet the collection extends beyond two dimensions. Alongside the visual records sit contemporary pieces of furniture, three-dimensional witnesses to how Londoners lived and surrounded themselves with beauty. Each entry carries the meticulous provenance and scholarly annotations that only antiquarians could provide, tracing ownership histories, verifying attributions, and situating each work within London's visual evolution. The catalog stands as both memorial and reference work, a scholarly treasure that allows modern readers to peer into streets that no longer exist and understand what was lost when modernity arrived.