The city of London has long been a subject for panoramas by artists, mapmakers, and topographers. Many of their works have this as their title. The earliest topographical drawings preceded maps according to modern definition, although they were clearly based on surveys or multiple drawings reduced to a (fairly) consistent perspective, as it is clearly impossible for them to have been produced from any single real viewpoint, unlike modern photographic panoramas.

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  • The city of London has long been a subject for panoramas by artists, mapmakers, and topographers. Many of their works have this as their title. The earliest topographical drawings preceded maps according to modern definition, although they were clearly based on surveys or multiple drawings reduced to a (fairly) consistent perspective, as it is clearly impossible for them to have been produced from any single real viewpoint, unlike modern photographic panoramas. Amongst the earliest known is that by Wyngaerde, produced around 1543. Others include Van Visscher's of 1616: Many modern panoramic photographs of London exist, from many different viewpoints:
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  • The city of London has long been a subject for panoramas by artists, mapmakers, and topographers. Many of their works have this as their title. The earliest topographical drawings preceded maps according to modern definition, although they were clearly based on surveys or multiple drawings reduced to a (fairly) consistent perspective, as it is clearly impossible for them to have been produced from any single real viewpoint, unlike modern photographic panoramas.
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  • Panorama of London
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