Alfred the Great at the Battle of Ashdown François Pascal Simon Gérard View of St Bartholomew's Priory

View of St Bartholomew's Priory seen from the west

Behind his right shoulder appears Newgate Prison in flames

and church spires

John Smeaton was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1753

Plate 6 from the monograph The morbid anatomy of the human brain

Alfred the Great at the Battle of Ashdown François Pascal Simon Gérard View of St Bartholomew's PrioryAlfred the Great at the Battle of Ashdown, 871 (1913). Alfred the Great (849 899) at the Battle of Ashdown, 8 January 871, leading the West Saxon army of his brother, King Ethelred, to victory against the invading Danes. Illustration from The Northmen in Britain by Eleanor Means Hull, published 1913.