View of drovers driving cattle and sheep to Smithfield Market under the archway at Highgate Hill, 1822. The brick archway for Hornsey Lane was built by architect John Nash in 1813, and the toll road Archway Road (now the A1) underneath by engineer Thomas Telford using Roman cement and gravel. Pedestrians walk on the gaslit pavement. Highgate Archway. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Rudolph Ackermann’s Repository of Arts, Literature, Fashions, Manufactures, etc., Strand, London, 1822.

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