This collection of nine printed illustrations are featured as the frontispiece of Walter George Bell’s detailed account of the plague in The Great Plague in London in 1665. These wood prints depict different scenes from the plague including a scene of infected people from different social classes being treated by medical professionals, body collectors going through the streets, people escaping the Great Fire by taking refuge on boats on the Thames River, mass burial scenes,  a funerary procession, and what appears to be scenes of mass migration of those who lost their homes to the Great Fire of London. 

This print depicts a chart showing the geographical distribution of deaths during the Great Plague in London from Walter George Bell’s The Great Plague in London in 1665. The darkest regions represent over 3000 deaths per unit square, the second darkest being over 2000 deaths, the third darkest being over 1000 deaths, and the lightest being under 500 deaths. Through the variations of shading used by the artist, it appears that the outskirts and/or most heavily populated areas of the city were the most affected by the Great Plague and that areas such as the Tower of London were not as severely impacted. The Great Plague became known as the “Poore’s Plague” because the lower classes were “unable to escape from it” (“The Great Plague in London”).