An extremely rare daguerreotype view of London. Few examples survive. The earliest, by M. de St. Croix, were taken in 1839, during a two-month visit to London to demonstrate this new invention. Three from this series, all views taken in the area around Trafalgar Square, are now in the collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum and the National Museum for Photography, Film and Television in Bradford. The Royal Archives at Windsor holds two outdoor scenes by Kilburn showing the Great Chartist Meeting on Kennington Common in 1848 and a series of stereoscopic daguerreotype views were made of the Crystal Palace at Sydenham from 1854, although these concentrate on the interior courts and exhibits rather than the exterior. To date, it would appear that no other daguerreotype views of London have come to light.

Greenwich Hospital, one of London's most architecturally important buildings, was begun in 1696 to designs by Sir Christopher Wren and completed in the early eighteenth century by Nicholas Hawksmoor and Sir John Vanbrugh. The hospital closed in 1869 and became the Royal Naval College. This daguerreotype, laterally reversed, shows the carved pediment of the west block in the foreground.