The Oxford Arms, Warwick Lane, London
Carbon print, c. 1875
10/10; 178 x 224 mm, mounted
$850.
In Gernsheim & Gernsheim, 'The History of Photography', 1969 it is stated: 'A valuable documentation was undertaken by the Society for Photographing the Relics of Old London, established in 1874 to record for posterity picturesque or historic buildings which had been condemned for destruction. [Dixon & Bool]...did for London what Charles Marville had done for Paris in Haussmann's time.' Dixon & Bool's documentary project in London also prefigures Atget's work done in Paris in the late 19th and early 20th century.