From a watercolour by Hanslip Fletcher. First edition print, published 1947
Looking westward from Bread Street Hill, A fine view of the dome of St Pauls rising above the warehouses and offices of Cannon Street
On the left are the ruins St Nicholas Cole Abbey. Through a gap to the right is seen the Tower of St Augustine's Watling Street.
Fletcher was a watercolour painter and printmaker with a special interest in London’s architecture.
Born in London, he was educated at Merchant Taylors’ School, and became a member of the Art Workers’ Guild. He lived in London all of his life.
Fletcher’s work featured regularly in London’s serious daily and Sunday newspapers, and he exhibited at the Royal Academy, the Goupil Gallery, the royal Institution and in other London galleries.
The Guildhall Library and Southampton Art Gallery have some of his works on their collections.
