Burford, Robert, 1791-1861 (English painter)

Scope and Contents This is a single-sheet advertising handbill for Burford's Panorama, Leicester Square, bearing the following text on its recto: "Burford's Panorama, Leicester Square. A sublime and beautiful view of Switzerland from Rigi Kulm also a view of the ruins of Pompeii, the city of the dead: and a view of Paris, taken during one of the most important periods of the recent political events" [the events refer to the French Revolution of 1848, also known as "February Revolution"]. On the verso, there...