The London Monument, flame-topped 61m-tall Doric column erected in 1677 by architect Sir Christopher Wren to commemorate the Great Fire of London of 1666. Le Monument de Londres. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Carl Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1813. A 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with almost 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830.

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