Blackfriars Bridge and St Paul's Cathedral

Blackfriars Bridge and St Paul's Cathedral is a landscape painting by the British artist William Marlow, sometimes dated as c.1762.

[1] A riverscape and veduta it depicts a view in London of Blackfriars Bridge with St Paul's Cathedral towering behind it.

[2] Although the bridge wasn't fully opened until 1769, the painting depicts the Portland Stone arches built to an Italianate architecture design of the architect Robert Mylne.

[3] Today it is in the collection of the Guildhall Art Gallery, having been acquired in 1975.

[4] Marlow produced several variations of the scene over a number of years, with one dated from 1788.