2-699-505 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Essex House, Putney', (c1878). House in the village of Putney near the River Thames, (now part of greater London). Essex House is thought to have been built and occupied by Queen Elizabeth I's favourite, Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, in the late sixteenth century. From Old and New London: A Narrative of Its History, Its People, And Its Places. The Southern Suburbs, Volume VI, by Edward Walford. [Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., London, Paris & New York, c1878]