Fake views of Shot Tower in Constable’s painting of Waterloo Bridge | Letter

Letters: Nick Rampley on the anachronistic appearance of a former South Bank landmark in the artist’s 1817 Thames skyline

It was heartening to learn that Constable’s magnificent depiction of the opening of Waterloo Bridge has been restored to its original glory . The 1817 Thames skyline that it reveals, however, is not authentic in at least one detail.

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