Solemn Joust on London Bridge Finish:10-pack View of Newington Turnpike

View of Newington Turnpike

including the Brunswick and the Propeller

Bedford House

The scene is taking place in front of Garraway's Coffee House

showing St Batholomew's Hospital to the left and the tower of St Sepulchre in the distance

Solemn Joust on London Bridge Finish:10-pack View of Newington TurnpikeSolemn Joust on London Bridge, late 15th century, (1886). Victorian representation of a jousting match between David de Lindsay, Earl of Crawford and Lord John de Welles, Ambassador of Richard III. The match must have taken place between 1483 and 1495. The victor in the painting bears the arms of John de Wells, who was in fact beaten by Lindsay. The River Thames and the Tower of London can be seen in the background.