Description: The simple engraving seen here is looking towards Nottingham from the North showing the whole of the city; from the Castle on the right across to St Mary's Church in the Lace Market in the centre. St Peter's Church spire is inbetween. The city at this time still had the appearance of a large market town. The houses were bound within a restricted area due to a ring of fields and meadows around the city, used by the burgesses of freeholders of the City to graze their animals (The Nottingham Enclosure Act of 1845 enclosed these fields and meadows, and compensated them for the loss of open space used for housing development, and allotted space for a series of places of public recreation and public walks). The city, as it is seen here, has not yet developed its late Georgian and Victorian boom in the industrial economy, with its associated increase in population and cramped squalid housing. This scene is a pastoral one with water (?) in the foreground.