In the year 1745 a print was published, from a drawing by chatelain, in which the observations of the writer quoted above, showing a traditional connection between the field and the stone, are, to a certain extent, borne out. The engraving is a view of highgate from upper holloway, (fn. 13) taken from a point a little below the place where whittington's stone stands, or stood, in which the stone appears as the base or plinth of a cross, with part of the pillar still remaining; and it has been suggested that what was formerly called whittington's stone was nothing else than a way-side cross in front of the chapel of st. Anthony, erected for the purpose of attracting the notice of the traveller to the unhappy objects of the hospital, and as a means of soliciting the alms of the charitable, and consequently erected long after the time when whittington flourished. Date: 1873 (1887 copy). Image taken from page 397 of 'Old and New London, etc' (11186946034)
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