English: South-west prospect of the sity of Gloucester. From Records of Gloucester Cathedral Volume 2. The following decription of the image is given by Rev. Bazeley:

The view of Gloucester which is placed as a frontispiece to this volume has been lithographed from an engraving in the collection of Mr. H. W. Bruton, and has been most generously presented to the Cathedral Society for the Records by Messrs. Kell & Son, of 40, King Street, Covent Garden, London.
On the left of the picture the little bell tower of old S. Bartholomew’s Hospital rises above the trees and surrounding houses. This hospital is said to have been founded about the commencement of the 13th century by William Myparty, a burgess of Gloucester, as an abode for a guild of workmen who were erecting the West Bridge under their guild master, Nicholas Walred, a clerk. In 1229 Henry III. endowed the hospital with S. Nicholas’ Church, and dedicated it to the apostle S. Bartholomew. On the Dissolution of the Monas- teries in the time of Henry VIII. this hospital fell into the hands of.the crown; and it was granted to the Mayor and Burgesses of Gloucester by Queen Elizabeth. In 1789 the old building which appears in the picture was taken down and rebuilt. A rough view of S. Bartholomew’s is given in Rudge’s History of Gloucester.
The high chimneys on the right of S. Bartholomew’s were built in the 17th century for the manufacture of glass. The base of the chimney on the left still exists. The chimney on the right has disappeared, but its name survives in Glass House Yard.
Between the chimneys may be seen two of the seven arches of Foreign Bridge, spanning the old course of Severn which ran by S. Oswald’s Priory. This bridge, which now lies buried beneath Westgate Street, is shown very distinctly in Speed’s map of Gloucester, made at the end of the 16th century. Leland, who visited Gloucester about 1540, gives some particulars in his Itinerary relating to the different branches of the Severn and the bridges that spanned them in his time. Foreign Bridge and its predecessors probably date back to the time of the Romans; Westgate Bridge to the year 1226; and Over Bridge to 1540.
On the right of the glass houses appears a building in the style of architecture of Queen Anne’s time, with four urns and a large bird adorning the parapets. This, I am told, was the old Custom House, which has been taken down within the memory of present inhabitants of Gloucester. Behind the masts of the great barge are the towers of the churches of S. Mary de Lode and S. Nicholas. S. Mary de Lode derived its name from a lode or ferry over the old Severn. In the chartularies of S. Peter’s Abbey this church is always called S. Mary before the Abbey Gate. It was at one time the only parish church of Gloucester; and here, tradition says, was buried Lucius, the first christian king of Britain.
S Nicholas’ Church has lost the upper part of its spire since this view was taken. About the beginning of this century the spire was struck by lightning, and was taken down as far as the coronet which now surmounts it.
In the middle of the picture is the little island called the Eyt or Naight, which was formed by a parting of the Severn opposite the present County Gaol. The two courses reunited near the site of the present old dry dock, from the south side of which the picture appears to have been taken. The north-east course of the river was filled up at the time of the construction of the Berkeley Canal, and the island now forms part of the land between the great basin and the river.
On the right of S. Nicholas’ Church stands the County Gaol, which was a fragment of the old Castle of Gloucester. A view of this building, taken just before its demolition in 1785, appears in Fosbroke’s History of Gloucester.
Next to the Gaol are some Gothic buildings which may include Bareland House. Above them rises up against the sky the Cathedral, for a thousand years before the Dissolution the famous Abbey of S. Peter.
On the right of the Cathedral is seen the tower of Trinity Church, which stood in the middle of Westgate Street, opposite Upper College Court. In 1648 the parish of Trinity was united with that of S. Nicholas and the church was demolished. The tower, however, was allowed to remain, and did duty as a fire-engine house and market till 1749-50 when it was taken down.
Lady Bell Gate House, now the Liberal Club, is said to have been the town house of the Guise family. We recognize it by its parapets and bell tower. It appears in Kip’s view of Gloucester in the 1712 edition of Atkyns; and from the style it cannot be very much older.
The spire of S. John’s Church is ancient; but the church was rebuilt in 1782-4. After the battle of Bosworth Field, the fourth centenary of which is being kept this year, Viscount Lovel and Lord Stafford fled to this church for sanctuary.
The little spire on the right of S. John’s must I think be intended for the High Cross, which was taken down in 1750. There are two good views of the cross; but only a fragment of the structure is known to exist. The tower of S. Michael’s Church is said to have been built during the Wars of the Roses. The church was considerably altered in 1653, the materials which were used for the purpose having been procured by the demolition of the church of S. Mary de Grace, which stood in Westgate Street near S. John’s Lane, and §. Aldate’s. Next on the right are the remains of the Blackfriars which was founded as a Dominican Priory in 1239 by Henry III. and by Stephen, Lord Hurnhull. It was dissolved in 1538 and granted in 1540 to Sir Thomas Bell, who converted it into a mansion and a manufactory for caps.
S. Mary de Crypt, so called from its having two charnel _houses or vaults, was founded in 1137 by Robert Chichester, Bishop of Exeter, and was conferred by him on Llanthony Priory.

The costumes of the milk-maid, wending her way to Llanthony Priory, and of the fishermen on the river bank carry us back to the early part of the reign of George II; and I am inclined to refer the picture to that date.