A Distant View of the City of London from St. John's Wood

William Frederick Wells · c. 1805

William Frederick Wells: c. 1762–1836

UnclassifiedUnited Kingdom

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William Frederick Wells, William Frederick Wells, William Frederick Wells

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Sir Robert Ker Portereditorial inference
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A Distant View of the City of London from St. John's Wood

c. 1805

Dating: Approximate
Held at: Yale Center for British Art
Collection no.: B1977.14.4351
Attribution: By the artist
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William Frederick Wells. A Distant View of the City of London from St. John's Wood. Image credit: William Frederick Wells; Source credit: Yale Center for British Art. Wikimedia Commons. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en). Resized and JPEG-compressed; selected source frame preserved.

Collection: Yale Center for British Art

Location checked Oct 5, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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