St. Stephen's Walbrook

Thomas Rowlandson

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

St. Stephen's Walbrook stands near Mansion House in the City of London, was designed by Sir Christopher Wren and opened in 1679, after the 15th century church on the site was destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666. Within a rectangular plan, twelve corinthian columns support a high dome based onthat in St. Paul's Cathedral. Rowlandson and Pugin show a service in progress with figures in box pews listening to a minister in a pulpit to the right of the altar.

Drawings and Prints

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Department’s vast collection of works on paper comprises approximately 21,000 drawings, 1.2 million prints, and 12,000 illustrated books created in Europe and the Americas from about 1400 to the present day. Since its foundation in 1916, the Department has been committed to collecting a wide range of works on paper, which includes both pieces that are incredibly rare and lauded for their aesthetic appeal, as well as material that is more popular, functional, and ephemeral. The broad scope of the department’s collecting encourages questions of connoisseurship as well as those pertaining to function and context, and demonstrates the vital role that prints, drawings, and illustrated books have played throughout history.

Metropolitan Museum of Art