Amongst the nerves of the world 1930 Frame:black bird's eye view of a

bird's eye view of a busy street at Cheapside

General view of the park with the north east corner of the Serpentine in the Summer

Reconstruction drawing of Londinium looking east: 'Roman London c

with boats and barges in foreground

Amongst the nerves of the world 1930 Frame:black bird's eye view of aC R W Nevinson painted this dynamic image of Fleet Street when it was the centre of the British news industry in the 1920s. Viewed from an upper storey window at the corner of Shoe Lane, it looks east towards Ludgate Hill and St Paul's Cathedral. Nevinson was influenced by the Italian Futurist Umberto Boccioni's use of forceful lines and hard edges to convey ideas of conflict, atmosphere and noise. Branded the 'English Futurist' by the press, Nevinson