2-699-015 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Ancient View of Cheapside', (1897). The procession of Marie de Medici along Cheapside in the City of London, part of the French Queen's visit to King Charles I and her daughter Henrietta Maria in 1638. Here her entourage passes the Cross (centre) and the Conduit (seen on the right). The Cheapside Cross was one of the Eleanor crosses, a series of twelve stone monuments topped with tall crosses, erected between 1291 and 1294 by King Edward I in memory of his wife Eleanor of Castile. The Great Conduit was a man-made underground channel which brought drinking water from the Tyburn to the City. On Cheapside there was a building where citizens could draw water. From Old and New London, Volume I, by Walter Thornbury. [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris & Melbourne, 1897]