Detailed Drawing of London’s Old St. Paul’s Cathedral, to Be Sold at Sotheby’s

LONDON.- A remarkable previously undocumented drawing by the Bohemian artist Wenceslaus Hollar which provides a unique visual record of the appearance of the East end of London’s Old St. Paul’s Cathedral, has been brought, unannounced, into Sotheby’s Bond Street offices, and will be auctioned on Tuesday, July 6, 2010 (est. £60,000-80,000, illustrated above). One of the most important buildings that the Great Fire of London destroyed in 1666 was the city’s Medieval Cathedral, St. Paul’s. The ruins of the old Cathedral were soon replaced by Sir Christopher Wren’s great London landmark, and relatively few people are today aware that the original cathedral, begun in 1083, stood on the site for nearly 600 years – almost twice as long as Wren’s architectural masterpiece has graced the London skyline. Even though Old St Paul’s stood for so long, our

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