The Ritz wedding map print

The hotel was the work of the Swiss hotelier César Ritz, who opened it eight years after his hotel in Paris. His architects, Charles Mewès and Arthur Davis, cleared the site of the Walsingham House Hotel, whose brick foundations had to be blasted away, and put up one of the earliest substantial steel frame structures in London.

Outside, the building reads as Paris on Piccadilly. Its long arcade echoes the Rue de Rivoli, the mansard roof on the Green Park side recalls the Louvre's Pavillon de Flore, and green copper lions, the hotel's emblem, sit at the roof corners. Inside are the Palm Court, home of tea at the Ritz, and the Rivoli Bar, designed in 2001 to resemble a bar on the Orient Express.

Your artwork places all of that in a few city blocks. Green Park opens out beside the hotel and runs down to the Victoria Memorial, with the lake in St James's Park just beyond it and Buckingham Palace a few steps past the bottom edge. Piccadilly runs east past the Royal Academy, and the streets of St James's and Mayfair crowd in to the north and south. That is a good deal of London to stand behind one afternoon's photographs.