Monets 'Sun breaking Through The Fog'

As part of my Westminster To Tower bridge research I have been Looking at Monets London paintings of the Thames and smog link(new scientist)


image from Christies
Monet painted Sun Breaking Through The Fog' in 1904, from the window of his hotel room in the Savoy
Web Musum. Paris


It is worth quoting a passage from Peter Ackroyds excellent biography of London, Vintage
page436 quoting Monet on London Fogs.

"Then, in London, above all what I love is the fog....that gives it its magnificent breadth. Those massive,regular blocks become grandouse within that mysterious cloak."