Four silk pictures in one frame, with the title, 'Views of Ye Olde London Streete'.  The mount contains the City of London Coat of Arms, and individual silks titled, 'Ye Church of all Hallows', Ye Olde London Streete', and 'Ye Olde Bishopsgate')

Views of Ye Olde London Streete


Reference Number:- Godden Number:- Grant Catalogue Number:-
gt 32 not mentioned unknown
 
Words:

Woven on Silk:-
 

 
Printed on the card mount:-
 
W. H. GRANT, Manufacturer, Foleshill, Coventry.
Ye Church of All Hallows
Ye Olde London Streete
Ye Olde Bishopsgate
Woven in pure Silk
Views of Ye Olde London Streete
Size:
Card-mount:
24.0cm deep by 34.0cm wide

each individual silk:

City of London Coat of Arms:
cm high by cm wide
Ye Church of All Hallows:
cm high by cm wide
Ye Olde London Streete:
cm high by cm wide
Ye Olde Bishopsgate:
cm high by cm wide
Comments:

by Geoffrey Godden:
Godden does not mention this silk.

Other comments:
The more popular title of this picture is "Ye Views of Olde London [gt36 on this site]", and is discussed at length by Godden. The multi-silk version above, whilst having the same titles of the individual silks printed on the card mount, the actual silk on the right is different.

The woven silk to the right titled "Ye Olde Bishopsgate" has the building roofline slopes down from left to right, with the two people to the left of the doorway. In the more popular Ye Views of Olde London, this silk is a mirror image, with the roofline sloping upwards, and the two people to the right of the doorway.

The three individual street scene silks were also issued by Grant as individually mounted pictures, being:

gt798 - Ye Church of All Hallows (building to left of weaving)
gt810 - Ye Olde London Streete
gt805 - Ye Olde Bishopsgate (roofline sloping down from left to right)
 
Just as the multi-silk picture above has the "Ye Olde Bishopsgate" image which varies to the normal, so the image below has the image of the "Ye Church of All Hallows" which itself varies to the more usual.
In this picture, the building is aligned to the right of the silk. The more usual version has this building aligned to the left of the silk, so the version below is the mirror image of the more usual version.
This version of the silk below is usually only recorded as part of "The Old London Album", recorded as gt56.
 
Four silk pictures in one frame, with the title, 'Views of Ye Olde London Streete'.  The mount contains the London City Coat of Arms, and individual silks titled, 'Ye Church of all Hallows', Ye Olde London Streete', and 'Ye Olde Bishopsgate')  
 


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large central image added 12 Septenber 2022. Image with variant of Church of All Hallows replaced on 7 September 2025

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