2-699-262 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Leicester Square, about 1750', (1881). View of Leicester Square in Westminster, London, with equestrian statue of King George I. The square was laid out in 1670. It became neglected over time and the statue was vandalised and eventually destroyed. From Old and New London: A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places. Westminster and the Western Suburbs, by Edward Walford, Vol. III. [Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., London, Paris & New York, 1881]