{"title":"Colosseum (Regent's Park, London)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Colosseum in Regent's Park turned London itself into an indoor spectacle: its great circular interior housed an enormous panorama of the capital, drawn from Thomas Hornor's observations at St Paul's Cathedral. The building was demolished in 1874. Thomas Hosmer Shepherd's views of 1828 show its domed form and monumental portico, one of them beside the lake in the park, and a print of about 1880 looks back to the building as it was in 1827.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"london-regent-s-park-colosseum-in-1827-1880-old-antique-print-picture-p-6-000468","title":"LONDON. Regent's Park. Colosseum in 1827 1880 old antique print picture","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e'The Colosseum in 1827. 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It was built in 1827 to exhibit Thomas Hornor's enormous \"Panoramic view of London\", which at 40,000 square feet was the largest painting ever created. Its cost was so great that its principal backer, Rowland Stephenson MP, had to flee to America. It did not prove commercially successful. In 1855 it was auctioned; the highest bid, for a building on which had cost £200,000, was £20,000. 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Hornor, a land surveyor and draughtsman, gained access to the summit of St Paul’s Cathedral in the 1820s, where he spent months sketching a detailed visual survey of the city skyline. The final painting, executed by E.T. Parris on a 40,000-square-foot curved canvas, was installed in the Colosseum’s central rotunda, offering visitors a fully immersive simulation of the view from St Paul’s. These unattributed engravings, likely sold as souvenirs or issued in connection with the exhibition, appear to be re-engravings of the plates from the promotional publication A Brief Account of the Colosseum (1829). Each print reproduces a section of Hornor’s original panorama, capturing a distinct compass direction and featuring finely annotated landmarks—from churches and commercial districts to outlying suburbs and distant countryside. 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