2-699-469 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Interior of the Rotunda, Blackfriars Road, in 1820', (c1878). German chemist Friedrich Accum (1769-1838) lecturing at the Surrey Institution in Southwark, south London. The building, dating from 1787, was used for various different purposes. It initially housed the collection of the Leverian Museum, and the Rotunda radicals met there in the early 1830s. 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]