I walked through the City lanes towards London Bridge and passed by the Jamaica Wine House embedded, as it seemed, in a canyon amongst towers.
The Cheesegrater and 22 Bishopsgate are the office blocks in the left background and One Leadenhall is under construction on the right.
This is a very old part of the City. Although some buildings have changed, the road layout still retains something of the feeling of Dickensian London. There has been a pub or coffee house on the site of the Jamaica Wine House since 1652. The current building dates from 1868 according to the Historic England List Entry (number 1079156).
Off the picture to the left is MacAngusWainright bespoke tailors and shirtmakers, at number 4 St Michael’s Alley. This shop used to be John Haynes＆Co, the jewellers.
St Michael Cornhill is visible to the left in the background, and you can just see the weathervane on St Peter upon Cornhill in the centre of the picture.
My drawing of St Peter upon Cornhill is in this post:
St Peter upon Cornhill
I went out to look for more gas lights in the City. There was rain, and the back alleys were wet. I couldn’t find any more gaslights. At the South East extreme…
read about St Peter upon Cornhill
The picture took an hour on location and I finished it at my desk.
The colours in the picture are:
- Fired Gold Ochre – my go-to colour for brick and sandstone
- Ultramarine blue, Lavender, and Cerulean Blue for the sky
- Burnt Umber in the sky
- All greys and blacks are Ultramarine Blue with Burnt Umber
- There’s a bit of Iridescent Gold on the weathervane of St Peter upon Cornhill
- The trees in St Michael’s garden are Serpentine Genuine with some Permanent Yellow Medium.
- St Michael on Cornhill is Buff Titanium with some Burnt Umber and Ultramarine Blue.
Done on Arches 300gsm NOT watercolour paper in a sketchbook by Wyvern Bindery, Hoxton. Thank you to McAngusWainwright, city tailor, for the kind loan of the chair.
Jane Sketching 