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Inner Temple after Fire 4 January 1737
Bequeathed by Richard and Catherine Garnons 1854
adults
architecture
building
crowd
disaster: Inner Temple, fire, 4 Jan 1737
England
figure
fire
Frederick, Prince of Wales
groups
history
named individuals
natural phenomena
objects
people
places
politics and society
prince
royalty and social rank
ruins
sedan chair
smoke
society
Temple, Inner Temple
tools and machinery
transport: land
UK countries and regions
UK London
water pump
work and occupations
<p>This picture records the devastation caused by a fire that destroyed Crown-Office Row in the Inner Temple during the night of 4 January 1737, fortunately without loss of life. The group in the centre includes Frederick, Prince of Wales (in blue, wearing the Garter star), who had sent fifty soldiers to help the firemen and later came to inspect the scene himself.Fires were a regular hazard in London and were fought with water pumps like the one just visible in the left foreground, It had to be filled by hand from the nearby Thames, which was at low tide when the fire began. This added delay, combined with a stiff breeze, made this conflagration more extensive than usual.</p><p><em>Gallery label, February 1997</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
4 March 2014 – 18 May 2014
2014-05-18
4 March 2014 – 18 May 2014
2014-05-18
2014-03-04
Tate Britain (London, UK)
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2014-03-04
Ruin Lust
Exhibition
The Inner Temple after the Fire of 4 January 1737
support: 648 × 952 mm
frame: 865 × 1177 × 120 mm
Bequeathed by Richard and Catherine Garnons 1854
<p>This picture records the devastation caused by a  fire that destroyed Crown-Office Row in the Inner  Temple during the night of 4 January 1737,  fortunately without loss of life. The group in the  centre includes Frederick, Prince of Wales (in  blue, wearing the Garter star), who had sent fifty soldiers to help the firemen and later came to  inspect the scene himself.<br/>Fires were a regular hazard in London and were  fought with water pumps like the one just visible  in the left foreground, It had to be filled by  hand from the nearby Thames, which was at low tide  when the fire began. This added delay, combined  with a stiff breeze, made this conflagration more  extensive than usual.</p>
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adults architecture building crowd disaster: Inner Temple, fire, 4 Jan 1737 England figure fire Frederick, Prince of Wales groups history named individuals natural phenomena objects people places politics and society prince royalty and social rank ruins sedan chair smoke society Temple, Inner Temple tools and machinery transport: land UK countries and regions UK London water pump work and occupations