The Russell Institution, Great Coram Street

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The Russell Institution, Great Coram Street

Thomas Hosmer Shepherd (1793-1864)

Price

£3,500

Signed

Signed and dated 1827
Inscribed 'Public Baths Great Coram St' and 'Russell Institn/Gt Coram St' on reverse

Medium

Monochrome watercolour with pencil

Dimensions

3 ½ x 5 ¾ inches

Illustrated

[James Elmes], Metropolitan Improvements or London in the Nineteenth Century, London: Jones & Co, 1828, facing page 130;
[James Elmes], London and Its Environs in the Nineteenth Century…Illustrated ... by Thomas H Shepherd, London: Jones & Co, 1828-31, (Engraved by James Tingle)

Exhibited

'Bliss Was It in That Dawn To Be Alive, 1750-1850',
Chris Beetles Gallery, London, October 2008, no 255

Originally published as an engraving by Jones & Co on 16 August 1828 (Engraved by James Carter)

In 1808 the Russell Institution was founded by private subscription with the aim to create an organisation and building consisting of a library, reading room and a lecture hall dedicated to literature and science. Based on the Royal Institution it was intended to create an assembly hall, north of the new housing built around Bloomsbury Square. It was closed in 1891 and later demolished. It is now the site of the Witley Court flats built in 1932.
'The front next Coram Street is distinguished by a tetrastyle portico of the Doric order, with triglyphs; the cornice and frieze of which runs through the winks and flanks divested of the triglyphs.'
[James Elmes], Metropolitan Improvements or London in the Nineteenth Century, page 132