Note 546 — Chapter XVI

The Merian View of London, published in 1638 at Frankfort-am-Main, is merely a copy of the Visscher view with the addition of certain details from another and earlier view not yet identified. It has no independent value. The View of London printed in Howell's Londinopolis (1657), is merely a slavish copy of the Merian view. Visscher's representation of the Bear Garden does not differ in any essential way from the representation in Hondius's View of 1610. For a fuller discussion see pages 126, 146, 248.