View of the bear and bullbaiting arenas

View of the bear and bullbaiting arenas
Image Date: 
1633
Image Type: 
Commentary: 

Detail showing 2 bearbaiting and bullbaiting arenas in Southwark. It is possible that the western arena in this view is an artist's depiction of the first Bear Garden, approximately located.

Traditionally attributed to Ralph Agas, based on a ca. 1560 original copperplate view of London (most sections now lost).

Source: 

COLLAGE image database,

http://collage.cityoflondon.gov.uk/

By kind permission of London Metropolitan Archives, City of London.