St. Stephen's Walbrook

St. Stephen’s, Walbrook, is on the many churches built by the great architect Sir Christopher Wren after the great fire of London in 1666. With its central dome, and elegantly placed windows, the Microcosm held it to be "in point of taste, harmony, proportion, elegance, and beauty" among Wren’s finest. The space over the altar, which is blank in this black-and-white proof and very hazily sketched in the final, hand-colored print, is Benjamin West’s Devout Men Taking the Body of Saint Stephen. The painting is no longer in the church; instead, you can see it now at the MFA, and on display in the galleries.