The Rosemary Branch still exists, 200 years on, albeit as a pub, but everything else in this charming and beautifully preserved topographical watercolour is as removed from present-day urban Islington as a landscape on the moon: an acre-sized 'boating lake' and a pair of windmills for a white lead works. Illustrated in Rex Wailes' definitive study 'The English Windmill'.

Provenance:
Thomas Hennell
Michael Macleod