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-The Project Gutenberg eBook of Catalogue of a collection of early
-drawings and pictures of London, by Burlington Fine Arts Club
-
-This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and
-most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions
-whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms
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-will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before
-using this eBook.
-
-Title: Catalogue of a collection of early drawings and pictures of
- London
- With some contemporary furniture
-
-Author: Burlington Fine Arts Club
-
-Release Date: September 14, 2022 [eBook #68989]
-
-Language: English
-
-Produced by: Melissa McDaniel and the Online Distributed Proofreading
- Team at https://www.pgdp.net
-
-*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CATALOGUE OF A COLLECTION OF
-EARLY DRAWINGS AND PICTURES OF LONDON ***
-
-
-
-Transcriber’s Note:
-
- Inconsistent hyphenation and spelling in the original document have
- been preserved. Obvious typographical errors have been corrected.
-
- Italic text is denoted by _underscores_.
-
- Plate XLI (No.94) is attributed to Canaletto in the Index and to
- Samuel Scott in the text and caption.
- Plate XLII (No. 95) is attributed to Samuel Scott in the text and caption,
- and to Nattes in the Index.
- “established 27 Charles II” is a possible misprint.
- “notoriety as forger” should possibly be “notoriety as a forger”.
- Trevithic and Trevithick appear to refer to the same person.
- “Albany” is possibly italicized in error.
- Hendrik and Hendrick (Danckerts) appear to be alternate spellings of
- the same name.
-
-
-
-
- Burlington Fine Arts Club
-
- [Illustration]
-
- CATALOGUE OF A COLLECTION
- OF
- EARLY DRAWINGS AND
- PICTURES OF
- LONDON
-
- WITH SOME CONTEMPORARY FURNITURE
-
- [Illustration]
-
- LONDON
-
- PRIVATELY PRINTED FOR THE BURLINGTON FINE ARTS CLUB
-
- 1920
-
-
-
-
- LONDON: PRINTED AT THE CHISWICK PRESS
- TOOKS COURT, CHANCERY LANE
-
-
-
-
-COMMITTEE FOR THIS EXHIBITION
-
-[Illustration]
-
-
- OLIVER BRACKETT, ESQ.
- MAJOR SIR EDWARD COATES, BART., M.P.
- CAMPBELL DODGSON, ESQ., C.B.E.
- SIR WILLIAM LAWRENCE, BART.
- PHILIP NORMAN, ESQ., LL.D.
- EMERY WALKER, ESQ., F.S.A.
-
-[Illustration]
-
-
-
-
-LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
-
-[Illustration]
-
-
- HIS MAJESTY THE KING.
- COLIN AGNEW, ESQ.
- * THE LORD ALDENHAM.
- * A. ACLAND ALLEN, ESQ., M.P.
- HERBERT ALLEN, ESQ.
- THE GOVERNOR OF THE BANK OF ENGLAND.
- THE EARL OF BERKELEY.
- THE COMMITTEE OF THE CITY OF BIRMINGHAM MUSEUM AND ART GALLERY.
- * THE EARL BROWNLOW, P.C.
- THE WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF CARPENTERS.
- THE MASTER OF THE CHARTERHOUSE.
- MESSRS. CHRISTIE, MANSON, AND WOODS.
- THE WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF CLOTHWORKERS.
- MAJOR SIR EDWARD COATES, BT., M.P.
- * E. H. COLES, ESQ.
- THE WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF FISHMONGERS.
- THE COMMITTEE OF THE FOUNDLING HOSPITAL.
- * THE REV. LEWIS GILBERTSON.
- * THOMAS GIRTIN, ESQ.
- * E. C. GRENFELL, ESQ.
- THE WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF HABERDASHERS.
- J. P. HESELTINE, ESQ.
- R. K. HODGSON, ESQ.
- * C. H. ST. JOHN HORNBY, ESQ.
- MARY, COUNTESS OF ILCHESTER.
- * THE EARL OF ILCHESTER.
- THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIA.
- THE COMMITTEE OF THE BOROUGH OF LEICESTER MUSEUM AND ART GALLERY.
- * H. C. LEVIS, ESQ.
- * R. W. LLOYD, ESQ.
- THE HON. LADY LYTTELTON.
- THE WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF MERCHANT TAYLORS.
- * PHILIP NORMAN, ESQ., LL.D.
- * HENRY OPPENHEIMER, ESQ.
- SIR WALTER PRIDEAUX.
- THE TREASURER AND ALMONERS OF ST. BARTHOLOMEW’S HOSPITAL.
- * THE MARQUESS OF SLIGO.
- * A. MURRAY SMITH, ESQ.
- MESSRS. SOTHEBY, WILKINSON, AND HODGE.
- THE EARL SPENCER, K.G., G.C.V.O.
- THE WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF STATIONERS.
- THE WORSHIPFUL COMPANY OF WATERMEN AND LIGHTERMEN.
- * F. A. WHITE, ESQ.
- SIR HARRY WILSON, K.C.M.G.
-
- * Contributors whose names are marked thus are Members of the Club.
-
-[Illustration]
-
-
-
-
-LIST OF PLATES
-
-[Illustration]
-
-
- I. OLD LONDON BRIDGE. _G. Yates._
- NO. 1. Lent by Mr. T. Girtin.
-
- II. BOLINGBROKE HOUSE, BATTERSEA. _Artist Unknown._
- NO. 3. Lent by Mr. P. Norman.
-
- III. OLD WESTMINSTER BRIDGE. _Canaletto._
- NO. 4. Lent by H.M. the King.
-
- IV. VIEW DOWN RIVER FROM WESTMINSTER. _W. Hollar._
- NO. 6. Lent by H.M. the King.
-
- V. WESTMINSTER BRIDGE AND ABBEY. _Canaletto._
- NO. 8. Lent by H.M. the King.
-
- VI. WESTMINSTER ABBEY, SOUTH VIEW FROM RIVER. _W. Hollar._
- NO. 9. Lent by Mr. J. P. Heseltine.
-
- VII. VIEW UP RIVER TO WESTMINSTER. _Canaletto._
- NO. 11. Lent by Mr. J. P. Heseltine.
-
- VIII. OLD WESTMINSTER BRIDGE. _Canaletto._
- NO. 12. Lent by H.M. the King.
-
- IX. PIAZZA, COVENT GARDEN. _T. Sandby, R.A._
- NO. 14. Lent by H.M. the King.
-
- X. OLD SOMERSET HOUSE AND GARDEN. _T. Sandby, R.A._
- NO. 16. Lent by H.M. the King.
-
- XI. OLD LONDON BRIDGE FROM BILLINGSGATE. _G. Yates._
- NO. 19. Lent by Sir E. Coates.
-
- XII. CAMP NEAR SERPENTINE, HYDE PARK, 1780. _P. Sandby, R.A._
- NO. 23. Lent by H.M. the King.
-
- XIII. INTERIOR OF SECOND ROYAL EXCHANGE. _Artist Unknown._
- NO. 31. Lent by Sir E. Coates.
-
- XIV. CHURCH OF ST. PETER LE POOR, OLD BROAD STREET. _Artist Unknown._
- NO. 33. Lent by Sir E. Coates.
-
- XV. VIEW FROM THE CHURCHYARD OF ST. MARTIN’S-IN-THE-FIELDS. _W. Hunt._
- NO. 34. Lent by Mr. T. Girtin.
-
- XVI. ENCAMPMENT IN THE GROUNDS OF MONTAGUE HOUSE. _S. H. Grimm._
- NO. 35. Lent by H.M. the King.
-
- XVII. CHANTREY CHAPEL OF HENRY V, WESTMINSTER ABBEY. _John Carter._
- NO. 37. Lent by Sir E. Coates.
-
- XVIII. ABBOT ISLIP’S CHAPEL, WESTMINSTER ABBEY. _J. M. W. Turner, R.A._
- NO. 38. Lent by Mr. R. W. Lloyd.
-
- XIX. HALL OF BROTHERHOOD OF HOLY TRINITY, ALDERSGATE. _W. Capon._
- NO. 41. Lent by Sir E. Coates.
-
- XX. SITE OF EUSTON SQUARE, 1809. _T. Rowlandson._
- NO. 45. Lent by Mr. H. C. Levis.
-
- XXI. OLD CHEESE-CAKE HOUSE, HYDE PARK, 1797. _Artist Unknown._
- NO. 47. Lent by H.M. the King.
-
- XXII. FISHMONGERS’ HALL, FROM THE RIVER. _Unknown Artist._
- NO. 49. Lent by Sir E. Coates.
-
- XXIII. ST. DUNSTAN’S-IN-THE-WEST, FLEET STREET. _T. Malton the Elder._
- NO. 59. Lent by Lord Aldenham.
-
- XXIV. WESTMINSTER ABBEY FROM DEAN’S YARD. _T. Malton the Elder._
- NO. 61. Lent by the City of Birmingham Art Gallery.
-
- XXV. WAPPING. _T. Girtin._
- NO. 63. Lent by the Leicester Art Gallery.
-
- XXVI. EAST INDIA HOUSE FROM THE WEST. _T. Malton the Younger._
- NO. 64. Lent by the Secretary of State for India.
-
- XXVII. SADLER’S WELLS. _R. C. Andrews._
- NO. 67. Lent by the Hon. Lady Lyttelton.
-
- XXVIII. GREEN PARK, 1670. _W. Hogarth._
- NO. 68. Lent by the Earl Spencer.
-
- XXIX. ST. GEORGE’S HOSPITAL. _R. Wilson, R.A._
- NO. 71. Lent by the Foundling Hospital.
-
- XXX. THE CHARTERHOUSE. _T. Gainsborough, R.A._
- NO. 72. Lent by the Foundling Hospital.
-
- XXXI. ALDGATE SCHOOL AND WATCH-HOUSE AND TOWER _R. B. Schnebbelie._
- OF CHURCH. Lent by Sir E. Coates.
- NO. 73.
-
- XXXII. EAST INDIA HOUSE FROM THE EAST. _T. Malton the Younger._
- NO. 77. Lent by the Secretary of State for India.
-
- XXXIII. A WATER PAGEANT ON THE THAMES. _School of S. Scott._
- NO. 78. Lent by the Earl Brownlow.
-
- XXXIV. WESTMINSTER BRIDGE AND WESTMINSTER ABBEY FROM THE RIVER. _S. Scott._
- NO. 81. Lent by the Marquess of Sligo.
-
- XXXV. SIR RICHARD STEELE’S COTTAGE, HAMPSTEAD. _J. Constable, R.A._
- NO. 82. Lent by Mr. R. K. Hodgson.
-
- XXXVI. THE PARADE AND WHITEHALL FROM ST. JAMES’S PARK. _S. Scott._
- NO. 87. Lent by the Marquess of Sligo.
-
- XXXVII. WHITEHALL FROM THE NORTH. _S. Scott._
- NO. 88. Lent by the Marquess of Sligo.
-
- XXXVIII. WESTMINSTER FROM BELOW YORK WATER-GATE. _Thomas Wijck._
- NO. 91. Lent by Mr. E. C. Grenfell.
-
- XXXIX. WESTMINSTER FROM LAMBETH. _S. Scott._
- NO. 92. Lent by Mr. P. Norman.
-
- XL. THE OLD STOCKS MARKET. _Josef van Aken._
- NO. 93. Lent by the Bank of England.
-
- XLI. RIVER VIEW FROM GARDEN OF OLD SOMERSET HOUSE. _Canaletto._
- NO. 94. Lent by Mr. F. A. White.
-
- XLII. OLD WESTMINSTER BRIDGE. _J. C. Nattes._
- NO. 95. Lent by the Rev. L. Gilbertson.
-
- XLIII. WHITEHALL FROM ST. JAMES’S PARK. H. Danckerts._
- NO. 96. Lent by the Earl of Berkeley.
-
- XLIV. ELY PLACE, HOLBORN. _J. Carter._
- NO. 100_b_. Lent by Sir E. Coates.
-
- XLV. RANELAGH. _Has been ascribed to Hogarth; perhaps by F. Hayman._
- NO. 104. Lent by Mary, Countess of Ilchester.
-
- XLVI. OLD LONDON BRIDGE AND NEW LONDON BRIDGE FROM SOUTHWARK. _G. B. Moore._
- NO. 107. Lent by Sir E. Coates.
-
- XLVII. ST. PAUL’S CATHEDRAL FROM ST. MARTIN’S-LE-GRAND. _T. Girtin._
- NO. 111. Lent by Sir Walter Prideaux.
-
- XLVIII. OLD WESTMINSTER. _D. Cox._
- NO. 112. Lent by the Birmingham Art Gallery.
-
-[Illustration]
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-[Illustration]
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-
-
-PREFACE
-
-
-At this great time in the nation’s history, when changes moral and
-material are following each other with such speed that we “know not
-what a day may bring forth,” it seems all the more incumbent on us
-while we live in the present not to forget the past. Accordingly,
-the Committee felt that pictures and drawings of the London of our
-ancestors would have exceptional interest, and the present exhibition
-is the result.
-
-The space at our command being limited, we can only show a tithe of
-the material still in existence, but, through the kindness of owners,
-many fine works are on our walls, with others which, although as
-regards craftsmanship they have only average merit, are valuable
-as showing noteworthy scenes and buildings of a former day. Among
-the number that have not been exhibited before we would mention the
-drawings from Windsor which His Majesty the King has been graciously
-pleased to lend, also those belonging to Sir Edward Coates—but a
-trifling instalment of his unique collection.
-
-By way of preface a few words on old London views may not be thought
-superfluous. In manuscripts and early printed books pictures or
-illustrations which purported to represent London were now and then
-produced, but the artists did not attempt to imitate nature with
-precision, their feeling for decorative effect being paramount.
-Indeed, in R. Pynson’s edition of the “Cronycle of Englonde” (1510),
-what is probably the earliest engraved view which has any claim to
-represent London, shows no pretence of accuracy. With an effort of
-faith we may believe that we are looking at representations of old
-St. Paul’s, the Tower, London Bridge, Ludgate, and the church of the
-Black Friars, but the design is symbolic rather than imitative.
-
-Illuminations in manuscripts of the previous century in one or two
-instances give us clearer topographical hints. A volume of the English
-poems of Charles, Duke of Orleans, among the royal manuscripts at the
-British Museum, shows the duke, who was captured at the battle of
-Agincourt, as a prisoner in the Tower of London, where he was kept
-for many years. The river side of the keep has been opened, and he
-appears seated within. Portions of the Tower and old London Bridge
-with its chapel are well portrayed, while other buildings, although
-incorrectly placed, add a little to our knowledge. Another of the
-royal manuscripts in the British Museum shows Chaucer’s Canterbury
-pilgrims starting on their journey, with London in the background,
-the most interesting feature of this topographically being the old
-city wall, with its bastions at regular intervals. Something more may
-be learnt from the engraving (after a picture at Cowdray, destroyed
-by fire long ago) of the procession of Edward VI through London in
-1547. The artist, however, is still not imitating nature directly, but
-introduces conventional renderings of the more important buildings
-with which he was familiar, without troubling himself much about
-their relative positions.
-
-Two fine representations of Tudor London deserve special mention. The
-first of them as regards time is a view of London, not from Suffolk
-House as is generally supposed, but from the tower of the church of
-St. George the Martyr, Southwark, with Suffolk House, or part of it,
-in the foreground. It is a pen drawing, ten feet long or more, and is
-now in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. Although the various important
-buildings are brought somewhat together in order to include them all,
-this view has a look of nature, the style also being free and skilful.
-The artist is Anthonie Van den Wyngaerde, now generally held to have
-been a Fleming in the train of Philip II. The second Tudor view, which
-is at Hatfield House and belongs to the Marquess of Salisbury, is an
-oil picture, also by a Flemish artist, Joris Hoefnagel. It was rather
-poorly described by George Corner in a paper read before members
-of the Surrey Archaeological Society in 1858, and was in the Tudor
-Exhibition at the New Gallery in 1890, being then called Horsleydown
-Fair; but in all probability it represents a marriage fête by the
-old church of St. Mary Magdalen, Bermondsey, which has since been
-rebuilt excepting the lower part of the mediaeval tower. The ground
-between the church and the river is portrayed with much detail, and
-the scene is full of life and incident. The Tower of London appears
-in the distance. Hoefnagel, born at Antwerp, was responsible for many
-beautiful paintings, mostly of the miniature kind, and drew plans
-for Braun and Hogenberg’s “Civitates Orbis Terrarum,” published at
-Cologne in 1572, among them that representing London. On this perhaps
-the plan ascribed to Agas was based; the alternative being that they
-both owe their origin in some degree to a still earlier plan, all
-trace of which has disappeared.
-
-In the seventeenth century pictures of London subjects begin to be
-fairly plentiful. Among early ones the curious diptych of old St.
-Paul’s, dating from the time of James I and belonging to the Society
-of Antiquaries, may be mentioned. Although artless and entirely
-lacking in perspective, it contains details which are not to be found
-elsewhere, and there is a quaint London view at the back. Later in
-that century a series of accurate etchings by Hollar throw much light
-on the London of his day. About the same time also a few large and
-realistic pictures of London were painted, of which we are able to
-show two or three examples.
-
-Soon after 1720 the charm of London scenes came to be more generally
-recognized, and from then onwards her river, her parks, her streets and
-public buildings, have been depicted times innumerable, and by some
-of our most famous artists. Until the latter part of the eighteenth
-century oil pictures of scenes on the Thames were plentiful, Samuel
-Scott, who was also a marine painter, setting the example. He was a
-friend of Hogarth, and together they illustrated the account of that
-frolicsome jaunt to the Isle of Sheppey and back in 1732, which is
-now in the British Museum. Scott, who was latterly much influenced
-by Canaletto, founded more or less of a school, some of the pictures
-usually ascribed to him being perhaps by his followers. Canaletto
-himself paid us a prolonged visit, and several of his fine London
-drawings are on our walls. There is also evidence that he designed two
-oil pictures here exhibited (Nos. 69 and 94), which were previously
-attributed to Scott. As time went on water-colours by the Sandbys
-and others gradually came into vogue. Many years before the date to
-which this exhibition is confined, our predecessors began to take an
-interest not only in river scenes and great public buildings, but
-in humbler subjects, such as old houses, and picturesque nooks and
-corners threatened with destruction. Pennant’s “London,” of which there
-are several splendidly extra illustrated copies, helped to encourage
-these varied tastes, so did Wilkinson’s “Londina Illustrata,” to name
-only one later publication, and competent draughtsmen and engravers
-got something like permanent employment on work of this kind.
-
-We will now say a few words about the great private collections
-of London topographical prints, drawings, maps and plans, formed
-many years ago, chiefly of material which comes within the period
-to which we are limited. Three of these collections are specially
-famous, and they were brought together by busy men who died within
-living memory. These were Frederick Crace, to whom we owe the many
-portfolios catalogued under his name in the Print Room of the British
-Museum; James Holbert Wilson, whose collection has unfortunately been
-dispersed, and John Edmund Gardner. It is his amazing collection, far
-larger than all the rest put together, which has been saved for our
-interest and instruction by Sir Edward Coates, and of which a few
-examples are here shown. The late Mr. Gardner who formed it, began
-when little more than a boy, by the purchase for five guineas of an
-extra illustrated Pennant, and he continued buying steadily throughout
-a long life. He passed away December 29th, 1899, at the ripe age of
-eighty-two, having occupied himself with his beloved portfolios on
-that very day. Among his more important purchases were almost all
-the original drawings, about two hundred in number, made for the
-“Londina Illustrata,” and twenty-eight folio volumes of sketches by
-John Carter. Not very many years ago the late J. P. Emslie, who,
-with C. J. Richardson and others, carried on the work of previous
-generations, told the present writer that he had just completed his
-thousandth drawing for the Gardner collection.
-
-To conclude. It is now somewhat the habit to speak slightingly of
-topographical pictures and drawings, as if there were something
-unworthy in copying with correctness the appearance of an interesting
-building or an attractive river or street scene. Such work is supposed
-to be outside the region of art, as giving no play to the imagination.
-But surely “the originality of a subject is in its treatment.” A man
-without a touch of the true spirit may paint the most ideal scene and
-leave us cold. On the other hand, while many artists of no exceptional
-talent, by their honest efforts have left topographical records for
-which we are thankful, almost all our great landscape painters have
-deigned now and then to depict London, and for those in sympathy with
-them they still give something of the thrill of pleasure which they
-themselves felt when they put their whole souls into their work.
-
- PHILIP NORMAN.
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-CATALOGUE
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-_The numbering of the Drawings and Pictures begins on the Entrance
-Door, and is continued to the left._
-
-_The measurements are in inches (the width preceding the height) and
-do not include the frame or mount._
-
-_The Furniture, etc., is described after the Pictures._
-
-_The Committee accept no responsibility for the accuracy of the
-attributions in the Catalogue._
-
-
-PLATE I. 1 OLD LONDON BRIDGE.
-
-Watercolour. 17 by 10 in.
-
-The bridge shortly before its removal. From a point on the Surrey
-side of the river, nearly opposite to old Fishmongers’ Hall.
-
-G. Yates, watercolour painter, worked in London on topographical
-subjects about 1825-37; in the Crace catalogue he is called Major
-Yates.
-
-By _G. Yates_, 1826.
-
-_Lent by Mr. T. Girtin._
-
-
-2 AUSTIN FRIARS CHURCH FROM THE NORTH-WEST.
-
-Watercolour. 7¾ by 7½ in.
-
-The priory of the Augustine Friars in London was founded A.D. 1253,
-and the church was rebuilt about a century afterwards. In 1550 the
-nave was made over to the Dutch community in London, and it has been
-in their hands ever since. The choir and steeple were destroyed by
-the then Marquess of Winchester at the beginning of the seventeenth
-century. In 1862 what remained of the church was very much injured
-by fire, the roof and all the fittings being burnt. It was “restored”
-at a cost of about £12,000.
-
-The interest of this drawing is due to the fact that it shows the
-church, with its decorated tracery and staircase turret, before the
-disastrous fire.
-
-_Lent by Sir E. Coates._
-
-
-PLATE II. 3 BOLINGBROKE HOUSE, BATTERSEA.
-
-Watercolour. 7 by 4¾ in.
-
-The St. John family became Lords of the Manor of Battersea in the
-early part of the seventeenth century. Henry, Viscount Bolingbroke,
-retired to the manor-house when nearing the end of his career, and died
-there in 1751. In 1763 the manor was sold to Lord Spencer, and much
-of the house is said to have been pulled down not long afterwards.
-The remainder was enclosed in ground attached to a mill built about
-1794, and it stands in the premises of the existing flour mill near
-the parish church, but is now dilapidated.
-
-This old drawing represents the house much as it was a few years
-ago. It contained a panelled room, a good staircase, and remains of
-a seventeenth-century plaster ceiling still there in 1920.
-
-_Lent by Mr. P. Norman._
-
-
-PLATE III. 4 OLD WESTMINSTER BRIDGE.
-
-Wash and pen drawing. 19 by 9 in.
-
-View of the bridge and of Westminster from mid-stream. The western
-towers of Westminster Abbey, as shown, were completed in 1739. Among
-prominent buildings are Westminster Hall, St. Stephen’s Chapel, and
-the Church of St. John the Evangelist with its four queer towers
-finished in 1728. In the distance is Lambeth Palace. Old Westminster
-Bridge, designed by the Swiss architect C. Labelye, was begun in
-1738-9 and opened 18 November 1750.
-
-Antonio Canale, the Venetian painter, usually called Canaletto, visited
-England in 1746, and remained about two years. During that time he
-produced many pictures and drawings, chiefly of London scenes. An
-inscription on the back of a picture of the Rotunda at Ranelagh (Nat.
-Gal. Cat. 1906, No. 1429) has been thought to prove that he was here
-in 1754.
-
-By CANALETTO, _c._ 1747 (1697-1768).
-
-_Lent by H.M. the King._
-
-
-5 VIEW DOWN RIVER FROM GARDEN OF OLD SOMERSET HOUSE.
-
-Wash and pen drawing. 19 by 7¾ in.
-
-By CANALETTO, _c._ 1747 (1697-1768).
-
-_Lent by H.M. the King._
-
-
-PLATE IV. 6 VIEW DOWN RIVER FROM WESTMINSTER.
-
-Pen drawing. 15½ by 5¼ in.
-
-Rare example of Hollar’s pen-work, unfinished. The point of view is
-about that of the “King’s Bridge,” Westminster. In the distance old
-St. Paul’s is faintly pencilled. Signature on a plank to the left.
-
-Wenceslaus Hollar, born at Prague, was brought to England by the
-Earl of Arundel in 1637, and worked under his patronage for years.
-In the Civil War he served under the Marquess of Winchester, and was
-taken prisoner at Basing House, but escaped to Antwerp. He afterwards
-returned, was appointed designer to the King, and spent the rest
-of his life here with an interval when he was sent by Charles II to
-Tangiers. A most industrious artist, we owe to him many fine etchings
-of London; died in poverty.
-
-By W. HOLLAR (1607-1677).
-
-_Lent by H.M. the King._
-
-
-7 VIEW UP RIVER FROM GARDEN OF OLD SOMERSET HOUSE.
-
-Pen and wash. 19 by 8½ in.
-
-Westminster Abbey, Bridge, and Hall are conspicuous, so is the
-Banqueting House, Whitehall.
-
-By CANALETTO, _c._ 1747 (1697-1768).
-
-_Lent by H.M. the King._
-
-
-PLATE V. 8 WESTMINSTER BRIDGE AND ABBEY.
-
-Pen and wash. 19 by 10½ in.
-
-View from Surrey side; a _fête_ of some kind is in progress; the river
-crowded with sailing boats and barges and wherries all proceeding up
-stream. The chief Westminster buildings are delineated.
-
-By CANALETTO, _c._ 1747 (1697-1768).
-
-_Lent by H.M. the King._
-
-
-PLATE VI. 9 WESTMINSTER ABBEY, SOUTH VIEW FROM RIVER.
-
-Pen and watercolour. 5¼ by 3 in.
-
-A choice drawing delicately tinted, shows Henry VIIth’s Chapel and
-the Chapter-house. The tower to the left of the latter must be the
-King’s Jewel-house. The narrow strip to extreme left, intended perhaps
-to represent part of a turret of Lambeth Palace, is a later addition
-joined on.
-
-By W. HOLLAR (1607-1677).
-
-_Lent by Mr. J. P. Heseltine._
-
-
-10 VIEW FROM AN ARCHWAY OF WESTMINSTER BRIDGE.
-
-Wash and pen drawing. 19 by 11½ in.
-
-Looking down stream, shows the riverside from York Water-tower to
-St. Paul’s.
-
-By CANALETTO, _c._ 1747 (1697-1768).
-
-_Lent by H.M. the King._
-
-
-PLATE VII. 11 VIEW UP RIVER TO WESTMINSTER.
-
-Wash and pen drawing. 28¼ by 15¼ in.
-
-On spectator’s right the first important object is York Water-gate
-still standing at the end of Buckingham Street, Strand, probably
-designed by Inigo Jones in 1626, and executed by Nicholas Stone. (The
-design is claimed for the latter in his Account Book.) Behind it is
-the house where Samuel Pepys lived with Hewer. No. 14 Buckingham
-Street is on the site. Next is York Water-tower, a slender wooden
-building about seventy feet high, part of the waterworks established
-27 Charles II to supply the West End with Thames water. They were
-burnt down and re-erected in 1690. Westminster Abbey and Westminster
-Hall are prominent. Westminster Bridge is unfinished. Lambeth Palace
-appears in the distance to spectator’s left. A drawing apparently
-copied from this is in the print room of the British Museum.
-
-By CANALETTO, _c._ 1746 (1697-1768).
-
-_Lent by Mr. J. P. Heseltine._
-
-
-PLATE VIII. 12 OLD WESTMINSTER BRIDGE.
-
-Wash and pen drawing. 19 by 11½ in.
-
-This view appears to be taken from the Westminster side. According
-to Labelye’s “Description,” published in 1751, the bridge was almost
-finished in the spring of 1747, but soon afterwards a pier settled
-badly. The two adjoining arches were thus wrecked and had to be
-supported by wooden framework, the spandrels, balustrades, etc., being
-removed. The effects of this accident are here shown; they delayed
-the opening for years.
-
-By CANALETTO, 1747 (1697-1768).
-
-_Lent by H.M. the King._
-
-
-13 LAMBETH PALACE GATE-HOUSE, AND PARISH CHURCH.
-
-Watercolour. 7¼ by 5¼ in.
-
-The Palace cannot be seen; in the distance is Westminster Bridge.
-
-The Gate-house, of red brick, with stone archway and quoins,
-was built in the time of Archbishop Morton who died in 1500. The
-fifteenth-century church of St. Mary, Lambeth, after being often
-altered and repaired, was almost entirely rebuilt in 1850-52.
-
-John Varley, born in 1778, exhibited at the Royal Academy and in 1804
-became a foundation member of the Old Watercolour Society. Many of
-his earlier subjects are taken from the banks of the Thames.
-
-By J. VARLEY (1778-1842).
-
-_Lent by Mr. J. P. Heseltine._
-
-
-PLATE IX. 14 PIAZZA, COVENT GARDEN.
-
-Watercolour. 12 by 10¾ in.
-
-A piece of the Piazza designed by Inigo Jones is here shown.
-
-The letters “PS” are stamped on the lower left-hand corner of the
-drawing, a proof that it was in the collection of Paul Sandby, but
-according to the pencil note beneath it was by Thomas Sandby. Each
-brother drew subjects of this character. They were accomplished
-artists, and foundation members of the Royal Academy. Thomas was the
-first R.A. Professor of Architecture. Paul is believed to have been
-the first in this country who practised the art of aquatint.
-
-By T. SANDBY, R.A. (1721-1798).
-
-_Lent by H.M. the King._
-
-
-15 CHURCH OF ST. DUNSTAN-IN-THE-EAST DURING RECONSTRUCTION.
-
-Pen and wash drawing. 16½ by 17½ in.
-
-After the Great Fire Wren rebuilt the church in his usual style
-excepting the tower, which is a bold attempt at Gothic with a spire
-on four flying buttresses. In 1817, the body of the church having
-become dilapidated, it was resolved to take it down and rebuild it
-to match the tower. The first stone of the new structure was laid on
-26 November of that year. If the date under this drawing be correct,
-the work must have proceeded slowly. The roof is off, but Wren’s
-renaissance arches still remain.
-
-Date 1819.
-
-_Lent by Sir E. Coates._
-
-
-PLATE X. 16 OLD SOMERSET HOUSE AND GARDEN.
-
-Watercolour. 29½ by 20¼ in.
-
-Old Somerset House was built by the Protector, brother of Jane Seymour
-and maternal uncle of Edward VI, being begun soon after the death of
-Henry VIII. During a portion of Mary’s reign it was assigned to her
-sister Elizabeth. James I granted it to his Queen, Anne of Denmark.
-Charles handed it over to his Queen, Henrietta Maria, and caused
-a chapel for Roman Catholics to be added to the building. This was
-designed by Inigo Jones and consecrated in 1635, and he did other
-work there. A picture at Dulwich, engraved for Wilkinson’s “Londina
-Illustrata,” shows it before his chapel and alterations destroyed the
-uniform character of the building. It can hardly be from nature, as
-the artist was Cornelis Bol, who also portrayed the Great Fire. The
-present view must have been painted shortly before its demolition
-in 1775. An arcaded portion designed by Inigo Jones, stands out
-prominently.
-
-By T. SANDBY, R.A. (1721-1798).
-
-_Lent by H.M. the King._
-
-
-17 OLD MANSION IN LEADENHALL STREET.
-
-Watercolour. 12½ by 18 in.
-
-To spectator’s right, above nearer buildings, is the spire of St.
-Peter’s Cornhill, and behind it the tower of St. Michael’s, Cornhill.
-
-If, as noted in pencil, this rather ornate structure was pulled down
-“for the East India House,” it must have been after the rebuilding of
-the latter from Jupp’s design, for it is shown in the large watercolour
-by T. Malton (No. 77) as immediately west of that building.
-
-About 1800
-
-_Lent by Sir E. Coates._
-
-
-18 WESTMINSTER FROM THE GARDEN OF OLD SOMERSET HOUSE.
-
-Watercolour. 14¼ by 10½ in.
-
-This drawing, like No. 14, is stamped with the initials “PS.” It was
-therefore in the collection of Paul Sandby, and below it, on mount,
-is the following inscription (not contemporary), “Drawn by T Sandby
-1752.”
-
-By T. SANDBY, R.A. (1721-1798).
-
-_Lent by H.M. the King._
-
-
-PLATE XI. 19 OLD LONDON BRIDGE FROM BILLINGSGATE.
-
-Watercolour. 21¼ by 12½ in.
-
-Shows, on the Surrey side of the river, St. Olave’s Church, Tooley
-Street, lately closed, a neighbouring shot tower destroyed in a fire
-of 1843, and St. Saviour’s Church, now Southwark Cathedral.
-
-By G. YATES, 1828.
-
-_Lent by Sir E. Coates._
-
-
-20 OLD LONDON BRIDGE FROM THE WEST.
-
-Watercolour. 22 by 12½ in.
-
-The bridge as altered when the houses on it were pulled down soon
-after the middle of the eighteenth century. The wide arch was then
-formed by the removal of a pier, two arches being thrown into one,
-which nearly caused the collapse of the fabric. An archaic steamer
-has a greyhound painted on its paddle-box.
-
-By G. YATES, 1830.
-
-_Lent by Sir E. Coates._
-
-
-21 BARN ELMS, 1793.
-
-Watercolour. 12 by 9½ in.
-
-Scene by the river near Barnes. In the distance are the towers of
-Fulham Church and of Putney Church at each end of old Putney Bridge.
-
-Barn Elms, east of what was the village of Barnes and extending to
-the river, doubtless derived its second name from the trees that
-abounded there. The mansion called Barn Elms, which is the chief
-building and has considerable grounds attached to it, is now occupied
-by the Ranelagh Club, which moved there from Ranelagh House, Fulham
-(not to be confused with Ranelagh, Chelsea), in 1884. At Barn Elms,
-Jacob Tonson, the famous publisher, secretary of the Kitcat Club,
-built a gallery for the reception of portraits of the members.
-
-The painting, signed “EE,” is by Edward Edwards, elected A.R.A. in
-1771, and made Professor of Perspective in 1788.
-
-By E. EDWARDS, A.R.A. (1738-1806).
-
-_Lent by Sir H. Wilson._
-
-
-22 THE MONUMENT FROM FISH STREET HILL.
-
-Watercolour on etched outline. 9 by 12 in.
-
-The Monument, designed by Sir Christopher Wren to commemorate the
-Great Fire of London, was finished in 1677. Beyond it is shown the
-steeple of the church of St. Magnus, also designed by Wren; beyond
-that again, part of the roadway of old London Bridge. After the
-removal of the houses on the bridge, its east path was continued along
-a passage then formed through the church tower. Fish Street Hill is
-a continuation of Gracechurch Street to the south, and was the main
-thoroughfare to old London Bridge.
-
-The painting is unsigned and undated: it belongs perhaps to the
-beginning of the nineteenth century.
-
-_Lent by Sir E. Coates._
-
-
-PLATE XII. 23 CAMP NEAR SERPENTINE, HYDE PARK, 1780.
-
-Watercolour. 19 by 10 in.
-
-Tents near the water. In the foreground a group of figures. To the
-left a dog is harnessed to a barrow, a man pushing behind.
-
-Paul Sandby published “Views in the Encampments in the Parks,” 1780,
-for which series this was probably done.
-
-By P. SANDBY, R.A., 1780 (1725-1809).
-
-_Lent by H.M. the King._
-
-
-24 OPERA HOUSE, HAYMARKET.
-
-Watercolour. 10½ by 7¾ in.
-
-The first theatre on this site (designed by Sir John Vanbrugh) was
-opened in 1705 and burnt down in 1789. The second building, which is
-here represented, was begun in 1790, and was enlarged by J. Nash and
-G. S. Repton in 1816-8.
-
-R. B. Schnebbelie, whose father also practised art, and whose
-grandfather, a native of Zurich, had been in the Dutch navy, was
-employed as a draughtsman for many years beginning about 1803, and
-did much good work for Wilkinson’s “Londina Illustrata”; this is the
-original of an engraving in that publication. He died about 1849.
-
-By R. B. SCHNEBBELIE, 1819.
-
-_Lent by H.M. the King._
-
-
-25 KING STREET GATE-HOUSE.
-
-Watercolour. 8¼ by 13 in.
-
-The original of an engraving which is in the first volume of “Vetusta
-Monumenta,” published by the Society of Antiquaries, the latter having
-on it the date 1725. This building stood at the north end of King
-Street and north-east corner of Downing Street, some little distance
-south of the so-called Holbein or Whitehall Gate-house, and although
-less ornate was of some beauty and importance, as may here be seen.
-It also dated from the time of Henry VIII, and was demolished in 1723
-to improve the approaches to Westminster.
-
-George Vertue was in 1717 appointed engraver to the Society of
-Antiquaries, and did many excellent engravings for them; he also,
-as we see, practised in watercolour, and his literary works are of
-value. He collected a mass of memoranda relating to former artists,
-and this collection, now in the British Museum, having been bought
-after his death by Horace Walpole, formed the basis of the latter’s
-“Anecdotes of Painting in England.” Vertue lived and died a strict
-Roman Catholic.
-
-By G. VERTUE, 1723 (1684-1756).
-
-_Lent by H.M. the King._
-
-
-26 THE OLD PLAYHOUSE, PORTUGAL STREET, LINCOLN’S INN FIELDS.
-
-Watercolour. 8½ by 7½ in.
-
-A brick building, with stone dressings and a tiled roof. It was on the
-site of a former theatre and dated from 1714. Here “The Beggar’s Opera”
-was produced, and ran for sixty nights. After various vicissitudes it
-became a store-place for Messrs. Copeland and Spode’s china, and was
-finally demolished for the enlargement of the Museum of the College
-of Surgeons.
-
-_Lent by H.M. the King._
-
-
-27 CUPER’S GARDENS, LAMBETH, FROM THE RIVER.
-
-Watercolour. 15½ by 6¾ in.
-
-These gardens, over against Somerset House in the Strand, were named
-after Boydell Cuper, gardener to Thomas, Earl of Arundel, who, when
-Arundel House was taken down, moved some of the mutilated marbles
-there, and opened them as a place of popular amusement. It continued
-to be thus used, and was famous for its fireworks. Degenerating in
-character, it was suppressed about the year 1753. On the site Messrs.
-Beaufoy established their works; they moved to South Lambeth when
-Waterloo Bridge (which runs over part of the gardens) was erected.
-The watercolour hardly looks as if it were earlier than the date of
-the closing of the gardens. Perhaps there was no great change in the
-entrance for some years.
-
-_Lent by Sir E. Coates._
-
-
-28 THE NURSERY, GOLDEN LANE.
-
-Watercolour. 6¼ by 8¼ in.
-
-Wrongly named the Fortune Play House, Golden Lane. The latter,
-originally built for Henslowe and Alleyn according to contract, “the
-frame to be sett square,” was destroyed by fire in 1621, and was
-replaced by a fabric of circular plan soon afterwards. In 1661 its
-site was advertised to be let for building.
-
-The “Nursery,” here depicted, was a school for the education of
-children for the stage, having been erected as the result of a patent
-granted by Charles II to one of the Legge family. It was drawn by J.
-T. Smith, who called it the Queen’s Nursery. The present watercolour
-was the original of an engraving in Wilkinson’s “Londina Illustrata.”
-
-George Shepherd devoted himself to topographical work. There are many
-watercolours of old London buildings by him in the Coates and Crace
-collections and elsewhere, executed from about 1792 to 1830 (his name
-being thus spelt), and they are good records.
-
-By G. SHEPHERD, 1811.
-
-_Lent by H.M. the King._
-
-
-29 ST. PAUL’S FROM AN ARCH OF BLACKFRIARS BRIDGE.
-
-Watercolour. 6¾ by 8¼ in.
-
-By T. MALTON the Younger (1748-1804).
-
-_Lent by Mr. A. A. Allen._
-
-
-30_a_ REMAINS OF WINCHESTER HOUSE, AUSTIN FRIARS, FROM GREAT WINCHESTER
-STREET.
-
-Watercolour. 8½ by 7 in.
-
-After the Dissolution the precinct of Austin Friars, except the nave
-of the church, came into the hands of William Paulet, first Marquis
-of Winchester, who there made a residence for himself. A portion
-of it remained until 1844, and is here shown; the heavy portico is
-evidently a later addition. During recent excavations masonry was
-found which must have belonged to this building.
-
-By G. SHEPHERD, 1811.
-
-_Lent by Sir E. Coates._
-
-
-30_b_ BACK OF WINCHESTER HOUSE, AUSTIN FRIARS.
-
-Watercolour. 7¼ by 4¾ in.
-
-Samuel Ireland, who painted this, was originally a mechanic of
-Spitalfields. He took to art, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1782,
-and brought out various illustrated books. The last was “Picturesque
-Views of the Inns of Court,” published in 1800, the year in which he
-died. His son achieved notoriety as forger of Shakespeare manuscripts.
-
-By S. IRELAND.
-
-_Lent by Sir E. Coates._
-
-
-PLATE XIII. 31 INTERIOR OF SECOND ROYAL EXCHANGE.
-
-Watercolour. 21½ by 16 in.
-
-The first Royal Exchange was founded by Sir Thomas Gresham, being
-opened by Queen Elizabeth 23 January 1570-71. It was destroyed in
-the Great Fire.
-
-The second Exchange, designed by Edward Jarman or Jerman, City
-surveyor, and begun 1667, was, like the earlier one, a quadrangular
-building, with a clock tower on the chief front facing Cornhill.
-Business was transacted in the covered walk or cloister within. The
-statue of Charles II in the centre was by Grinling Gibbons.
-
-This view was drawn from the north-west corner of the walk; the
-pinnacles of St. Michael’s church tower, Cornhill, appear above the
-building.
-
-Unsigned. Date probably about 1810.
-
-_Lent by Sir E. Coates._
-
-
-32 VIEW FROM A HOUSE IN PALL MALL.
-
-Watercolour. 11¼ by 14¾ in.
-
-This view is signed and dated 1824, and forms a fitting companion to
-No. 34, which is of the same style. The artist, William Hunt, born
-in 1790, had a great reputation in his day as a painter of fruit,
-flowers, birds’ nests, and other subjects of the kind, and also of
-rustic figures. His landscape is less known, and the works by him
-here exhibited are executed with unusual freedom. In these examples
-much of the outline is drawn with a pen.
-
-The artist in this case must have been sitting on the balustraded
-projection of a building, long ago destroyed, on the north side
-of Pall Mall. He looked east, and the steeple of the church of St.
-Martin-in-the-Fields appears in the distance.
-
-By W. HUNT, 1824 (1790-1864).
-
-_Lent by Mr. T. Girtin._
-
-
-PLATE XIV. 33 CHURCH OF ST. PETER LE POOR, OLD BROAD STREET.
-
-Watercolour. 13½ by 17½ in.
-
-This is the old church of St. Peter Le Poor on the west side of Old
-Broad Street, which in Stow’s opinion may have been so called because
-it was “sometime peradventure a poor parish.” It escaped the Great
-Fire, but traffic increasing, as it needed repair and projected into
-the street, it was pulled down in 1788 and rebuilt farther back.
-The second church, an indifferent piece of architecture, has been
-destroyed under the Union of Benefices Act within the last few years.
-
-_Lent by Sir E. Coates._
-
-
-PLATE XV. 34 VIEW FROM THE CHURCHYARD OF ST. MARTIN’S-IN-THE-FIELDS.
-
-Watercolour. 13¼ by 19½ in.
-
-In “Notes on Prout and Hunt” by Ruskin for an exhibition in 1879-80,
-he says: “Hunt learned his business not in spots but in lines. Compare
-the sketch of the river-side, No. 124, which is as powerful in lines
-as Rembrandt, and the St. Martin’s Church, No. 123, which is like a
-bit of Hogarth.” The view is along the colonnaded west front of the
-church, and up St. Martin’s Lane, of which the part here shown no
-longer exists. The bit of churchyard with tombstones disappeared on
-the formation of Duncannon Street.
-
-By W. HUNT (1790-1864).
-
-_Lent by Mr. T. Girtin._
-
-
-PLATE XVI. 35 ENCAMPMENT IN THE GROUNDS OF MONTAGUE HOUSE.
-
-Watercolour. 26½ by 19½ in.
-
-The first Montague House, Bloomsbury, was destroyed by fire 19 January
-1685-6, and the second, here shown, was designed soon afterwards by
-a Frenchman, Pierre Puget, or Poughet. The encampment is on the open
-space at the back of the mansion. The West Yorkshire Regiment is
-represented marching past Dr. John Moore, Bishop of Bangor, afterwards
-Bishop of Canterbury. Montague House had been bought for the British
-Museum under an Act passed in 1753. Additions were gradually made, but
-it was not until 1845 that the old building was entirely demolished.
-
-S. H. Grimm, who painted this watercolour, which is signed and dated,
-was born at Burgdorf, Switzerland, and settled in London about 1778.
-He sometimes exhibited at the Royal Academy, and was employed by the
-Society of Antiquaries, his work being chiefly topographical.
-
-By S. H. GRIMM, 1780 (1734-1794).
-
-_Lent by H.M. the King._
-
-
-36_a_ VIEW NEAR THE TURNPIKE AT NEW CROSS.
-
-Watercolour, outlined with a pen. 12½ by 9½ in.
-
-The scene is a rural one, with what appear to be an oast-house
-and other farm buildings in the foreground. The hill is called in
-Rocque’s map showing the Environs of London (1745) Plow’d Garlick
-Hill, afterwards Telegraph Hill. On it stands Aske’s School, belonging
-to the Haberdashers’ Company. Much of the rest remained open until
-a few years ago; now only a recreation ground has been saved from
-the builder. This hill is immediately south of the Turnpike site,
-now called New Cross Gate. New Cross was an outlying district of the
-parish of Deptford. Evelyn, in his “Diary,” 10 November 1675, mentions
-going in his coach from Sayes Court to “New Cross” to accompany Lord
-Berkeley to Dover.
-
-_Lent by Sir E. Coates._
-
-
-36_b_ NEW CROSS TURNPIKE ON THE KENT ROAD.
-
-Mezzotint, with an etched outline. 11 by 7¾ in.
-
-This print happened to be mounted on the same sheet as the watercolour
-below. It was drawn by J. Dillon, engraved by R. Laurie, and published
-in 1783. To spectator’s left is a board with the words, “The New
-Cross House”; on the right a sign of a man’s head.
-
-_Lent by Sir E. Coates._
-
-
-PLATE XVII. 37 CHANTREY CHAPEL OF HENRY V, WESTMINSTER ABBEY.
-
-Drawn with a pen and tinted. 10¼ by 12½ in.
-
-A careful architectural drawing, signed and dated, wherein some
-curious figures known as “the Ragged Regiment” are depicted. These are
-effigies of royal personages which were exhibited at their funerals.
-By degrees they got into a neglected state. Some years ago what
-remained of them was collected together, and the relics are now in
-the crypt adjoining the pyx chamber. A paper on them was published
-in “Archaeologia,” vol. lx, whence the following notes are culled
-identifying a few of the figures. The number refers to that on the
-drawing. II is thought to have represented Katherine of Valois. It
-is carved out of a single piece of wood; the dress has been painted
-bright vermilion. III, Anne of Denmark. IV, Henry VII, face finely
-modelled in plaster and painted, probably by an Italian. V is held to
-be Elizabeth of York. VI may have been James I, and VIII Queen Mary I.
-The fronts of the reliquary cupboards, here shown, have disappeared,
-their hinges remain. John Carter, an enthusiastic admirer of Gothic
-architecture, is referred to in our preface.
-
-By JOHN CARTER, 1786 (1748-1817).
-
-_Lent by Sir E. Coates._
-
-
-PLATE XVIII. 38 ABBOT ISLIP’S CHAPEL, WESTMINSTER ABBEY.
-
-Watercolour. 15½ by 21½ in.
-
-This painting was exhibited by Turner at the Royal Academy in 1796, and
-is an example of the thorough architectural work which he sometimes
-did in his earlier years. On a stone in the pavement is “William
-Turner natus 1775.” It was exhibited at the Burlington Fine Arts Club
-in 1871.
-
-By J. M. W. TURNER, R.A., 1796 (1775-1851).
-
-_Lent by Mr. R. W. Lloyd._
-
-
-39_a_ SECOND ROYAL EXCHANGE FROM THE WEST.
-
-Watercolour. 6¾ by 9½ in.
-
-On the building at west end are the words: “Royal Exchange Insurance
-for lives.” The tower is surmounted by Gresham’s crest, the
-grasshopper. Signed and dated.
-
-By G. SHEPHERD, 1810.
-
-_Lent by Sir E. Coates._
-
-
-39_b_ SECOND ROYAL EXCHANGE FROM THE SOUTH-EAST.
-
-St. Paul’s Cathedral appears in the distance. Signed and dated.
-
-By G. SHEPHERD, 1812.
-
-_Lent by Sir E. Coates._
-
-
-39_c_ SECOND ROYAL EXCHANGE FROM THE SOUTH-EAST.
-
-Etching and aquatint, touched with sepia. 5 by 7½ in.
-
-Same size as last from same point of view and similar in design, but
-tower as rebuilt, from design by G. Smith, surveyor to the Mercers’
-Company, between 1819 and 1824, when a sum of over £34,000 was spent
-on the fabric.
-
-By G. SHEPHERD.
-
-_Lent by Sir E. Coates._
-
-
-40_a_ CHURCH OF ST. GILES, CRIPPLEGATE, FROM SOUTH-WEST.
-
-Watercolour. 8 by 9½ in.
-
-A church of Norman foundation, but rebuilt in the fourteenth century,
-and again to a great extent after a fire in 1545. Upper part of tower
-dates from 1683-4.
-
-Signed and dated.
-
-By G. SHEPHERD, 1815.
-
-_Lent by Sir E. Coates._
-
-
-40_b_ CHURCH OF ST. GILES, CRIPPLEGATE, FROM FORE STREET.
-
-Pencil. 7¾ by 6 in.
-
-The building here shown against the church, in foreground, was called
-the Quest-house. It was destroyed about eighteen years ago.
-
-This drawing is signed by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd, who between about
-1820 and 1859 did hundreds of views of old London, but, unlike others
-of his surname, never exhibited at the Royal Academy, and is not
-noticed by Redgrave.
-
-By T. H. SHEPHERD.
-
-_Lent by Sir E. Coates._
-
-
-PLATE XIX. 41 HALL OF BROTHERHOOD OF HOLY TRINITY, ALDERSGATE.
-
-Pencil. 16 by 13 in.
-
-This hall, described on the drawing as a chapel, was on the west side
-of Aldersgate Street, a little beyond the church of St. Botolph,
-and was destroyed about 1790. Here was latterly the Aldersgate
-Coffee-house; the site is marked by Trinity Court.
-
-The brotherhood was suppressed by Edward VI. It had been founded in
-1377 as a fraternity of St. Fabian and St. Sebastian. The interior
-here shown has an open timber roof of the late fourteenth or early
-fifteenth century, and a Renaissance fireplace. In the large window
-is stained glass.
-
-William Capon, who made this and many other topographical drawings,
-was a scene-painter and architect; his antiquarian knowledge was
-considerable. He was a conceited man, Sheridan called him “Pompous
-Billy.”
-
-By W. CAPON, 1790 (1757-1827).
-
-_Lent by Sir E. Coates._
-
-
-42_a_ ST. JAMES’S PARK AND BUCKINGHAM HOUSE.
-
-Watercolour. 16½ by 9¼ in.
-
-From the end of the ornamental water looking towards Buckingham House;
-on the left are important buildings facing the park. Many figures,
-boy in foreground flying a kite. The canal was formed soon after the
-Restoration. Pepys on 16 September 1660, mentions seeing the work in
-progress.
-
-Carefully drawn with a pen and tinted, after the manner of the artist,
-who usually engraved his views on copper.
-
-By J. MAURER, 1741.
-
-_Lent by H.M. the King._
-
-
-42_b_ ST. JAMES’S PALACE AND THE MALL.
-
-Watercolour. 16¾ by 8¾ in.
-
-In the distance is the steeple of St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields. Deer
-can be seen in the open ground to right.
-
-By J. MAURER, 1741.
-
-_Lent by H.M. the King._
-
-
-43 ST. MARY-LE-BONE CHURCH.
-
-Watercolour. 6½ by 4 in.
-
-The new church built in 1813-4. A rural scene, in the foreground are
-trees and a pond.
-
-By J. VARLEY (1778-1842).
-
-_Lent by Mr. J. P. Heseltine._
-
-
-44 SALE OF BOOKS BY AUCTION AT SOTHEBY’S.
-
-Watercolour. 9¼ by 5¾ in.
-
-Drawn with a pen and tinted after Rowlandson’s usual manner.
-
-We are fortunate in exhibiting caricatures of auction sales by two
-historic firms, both still flourishing. Sotheby’s began in 1744
-with Mr. Samuel Baker, who at first held sales in taverns and other
-convenient places. In 1754 he established himself at York Street,
-Covent Garden, and in 1767 formed a partnership with Mr. J. Leigh.
-In 1778 the firm became Leigh and Sotheby. We need only add that in
-1804 the business was moved to 145 Strand, and in 1818 to 3 Waterloo
-Bridge, re-named 13 Wellington Street, which was given up two years
-ago for more commodious quarters in New Bond Street.
-
-By T. ROWLANDSON (1756-1827).
-
-_Lent by Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson, and Hodge._
-
-
-PLATE XX. 45 SITE OF EUSTON SQUARE, 1809.
-
-Watercolour. 9¾ by 8½ in.
-
-Signed “T. Rowlandson.” Written in pencil, but hidden, are the words:
-“Richard Trevithick’s Railroad, Euston Square 1809.” In fact, the
-Square dates only from 1825; as late as 1820 its site was a large
-nursery garden, and a group of farm buildings occupied ground on which
-the London and North Western Railway now stands. Trevithic, “father
-of the locomotive engine,” the main facts of whose remarkable career
-are recorded in “Dict. Nat. Biog.,” must have hired the ground in
-order to test and exhibit his invention.
-
-In the distance is Primrose Hill, with Hampstead beyond. Attractive
-design and colour give charm to a subject not easy of treatment.
-
-Rowlandson, trained in Paris and at the Academy schools, was an
-accomplished artist, capable of something much more refined than his
-clever caricatures, which most people know by coarse reproductions
-of them.
-
-By T. ROWLANDSON, 1809 (1756-1827).
-
-_Lent by Mr. H. C. Levis._
-
-
-46 SALE OF PICTURES BY AUCTION AT CHRISTIE’S.
-
-Watercolour. 11¼ by 8¼ in.
-
-The firm owes its origin to a notable man, James Christie, who issued
-his first catalogue in 1766. A portrait of him, painted by his friend
-Gainsborough, originally a good advertisement of the skill of the
-artist, was long hanging in the “great auction rooms” on the south side
-of Pall Mall, where Christie took up his quarters, next to Schomberg
-House. It was afterwards at the present address, No. 8 King Street,
-St. James’s, to which the firm moved in 1824. They now only have an
-engraving of it. Rowlandson drew another caricature of an auction
-sale at Christie’s.
-
-By T. ROWLANDSON (1756-1827).
-
-_Lent by Messrs. Christie, Manson, and Woods._
-
-
-PLATE XXI. 47 OLD CHEESE-CAKE HOUSE, HYDE PARK, 1797.
-
-Watercolour. 21½ by 12 in.
-
-The building, close to the Serpentine, is thus mentioned in Howard’s
-“English Monsieur” (1674): “Nay, ’tis no London female; she’s a thing
-that never saw a cheesecake, a tart, or a syllabub at the Lodge in
-Hyde Park.” Swift writes to Stella that after his duel with Lord Mohun
-the Duke of Hamilton was helped towards the “Cake-house,” but died
-on the grass before he could reach it. Later it was sometimes called
-the Mince-pie House. Demolished 1835-36. There is an engraving of it
-in the “Gentleman’s Magazine” for May 1801.
-
-Date 1797.
-
-_Lent by H.M. the King._
-
-
-48_a_ BUCKINGHAM HOUSE.
-
-Wash drawing in Indian ink. 10¾ by 5¾ in.
-
-Buckingham House in St. James’s Park was designed by Captain William
-Winde, said to have been a pupil of Gerbier, and to have been born at
-Bergen-op-Zoom, being finished for John Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham,
-in 1705. There is an account of it with elevation in Sir Reginald
-Blomfield’s book on English renaissance architecture. It was bought
-by George III, settled on Queen Charlotte, and here Dr. Johnson had
-his famous interview with the King. The original building was altered
-and added to from 1825 onwards until it quite disappeared, Buckingham
-Palace covering the site.
-
-Winde was of Norfolk family, well connected. See references to him
-in “Notes and Queries,” and his pedigree by Mr. J. Challenor Smith
-in Surrey Arch. Coll., vol. x.
-
-By J. MAURER, 1746.
-
-_Lent by H.M. the King._
-
-
-48_b_ THE HORSE GUARDS PARADE.
-
-Wash drawing in Indian ink. 10¾ by 5¾ in.
-
-On spectator’s left is the Admiralty (on the site of Wallingford
-House), surmounted by a semaphore telegraph. To the left of the
-Banqueting House is the Guard House, not that designed by Kent and
-finished by Vardy, but a previous building. Through the gateway
-beneath, a long procession has issued, the royal carriage with eight
-horses being in the foreground. Among other buildings shown are the
-Holbein Gate-house and the Treasury.
-
-By J. MAURER, about 1750.
-
-_Lent by H.M. the King._
-
-
-PLATE XXII. 49 FISHMONGERS’ HALL FROM THE RIVER.
-
-Watercolour. 12 by 8¼ in.
-
-The Fishmongers stand fourth on the list of the City Companies. This
-was their hall built after the Great Fire by Edward Jerman. It is
-said to have been the scene of Plate VIII of Hogarth’s “Industry
-and Idleness,” and was destroyed at the time of the rebuilding of
-London Bridge, which now covers its site. The present hall, near the
-north-west angle of the bridge, is a short distance farther up the
-river. The original hall had been the residence of Lord Fanhope.
-
-Date about 1810.
-
-_Lent by Sir E. Coates._
-
-
-50 LANDING AT THE “CROWN AND SCEPTRE” TAVERN, GREENWICH.
-
-Watercolour. 11¾ by 8¼ in.
-
-Part of Greenwich Hospital in mid-distance. The “Crown and Sceptre”
-was one of the old riverside taverns which ministered to the taste
-of Londoners for whitebait.
-
-By T. ROWLANDSON (1756-1827).
-
-_Lent by Mr. E. H. Coles._
-
-
-51 THE BANK LOTTERY.
-
-Watercolour. 23¾ by 16½ in.
-
-A lottery in the Rotunda of the Bank of England.
-
-Between 1709 and 1824 the Government raised large sums from lotteries
-authorized by Act of Parliament.
-
-By T. ROWLANDSON (1756-1827).
-
-_Lent by Sir E. Coates._
-
-
-52 BARTHOLOMEW FAIR.
-
-Watercolour. 13 by 8¾ in.
-
-In Smithfield, entrance of St. Bartholomew’s Hospital on the left.
-The fair is in progress: there are booths, swings, etc., and many
-figures. St. Sepulchre’s Church-tower in the distance.
-
-In the same frame is an etching of the subject by Rowlandson, to
-which colour has been crudely added.
-
-By T. ROWLANDSON, 1807 (1756-1827).
-
-_Lent by Sir E. Coates._
-
-
-53 SAVOY RUINS.
-
-Wash drawing in sepia. 12¼ by 8¼ in.
-
-The Savoy near the Strand was a house or palace built in 1245 by
-Peter, Earl of Savoy and Richmond, uncle of Eleanor, wife to Henry
-III. John, King of France, was imprisoned there after the battle of
-Poictiers. When in the hands of John of Gaunt it was burnt by Wat
-Tyler and his followers. After this it appears to have been neglected,
-till in 1505 Henry VII endowed it as a Hospital of St. John Baptist
-for the relief of poor people. Suppressed in 1553, and re-endowed by
-Queen Mary Tudor, seventeenth century plans show an important river
-frontage. It was maintained as a hospital until 1702, but Strype in
-1720 describes it as being partly a prison; in another portion was
-“the King’s printing press for proclamations,” etc. After gradual
-decay the last remains of the building were destroyed in the earlier
-years of the nineteenth century.
-
-The arches in mid-distance most likely belong to Blackfriars Bridge.
-Waterloo Bridge, first called Strand Bridge, was begun in 1811.
-
-We may call to mind that the gifted artist who drew this, and died at
-the age of twenty-seven, was born in the same year as W. M. Turner,
-whose well-known saying, “if Tom Girtin had lived I should have
-starved,” is a fine tribute to his genius.
-
-By T. GIRTIN (1775-1802).
-
-_Lent by Mr. T. Girtin._
-
-
-54 DRURY LANE THEATRE.
-
-Watercolour. 9 by 5¾ in.
-
-The first theatre on this site was opened by the King’s Company in
-1663, and was burnt down in 1672. The next, designed by Sir Christopher
-Wren, was opened in 1674 and was new-faced by the brothers Adam. A
-third theatre, designed by H. Holland, was opened in 1794 and burnt
-down in 1809. James and Horace Smith’s “Rejected Addresses” were
-burlesque prologues for the fourth theatre, designed by Benjamin
-Dean Wyatt, which is here portrayed. It was opened 10 October 1812,
-with a prologue by Lord Byron, whose style the Smiths had parodied.
-The portico in Brydges Street, now Catherine Street, was added when
-Elliston was lessee, and the colonnade, Little Russell Street, in 1831.
-
-This is the original of an engraving in Wilkinson’s “Londina
-Illustrata.” Whichelo, who painted it, devoted himself to topographical
-and afterwards marine subjects. He exhibited at the Royal Academy and
-was for many years member of the Old Watercolour Society. He died in
-1865.
-
-By J. M. WHICHELO, _c._ 1813.
-
-_Lent by H.M. the King._
-
-
-55 THAMES BELOW BRIDGE, LOOKING TOWARDS ST. PAUL’S.
-
-Watercolour. 21 by 13 in.
-
-A reach of the river with shipping, and old buildings to left, which,
-from their position and that of St. Paul’s in the distance, must be
-on the Surrey shore, near Rotherhithe.
-
-By John Thomas, elder son of Domenic Serres, R.A., native of Gascony.
-He was a successful painter of landscape and marine views, but was
-ruined by the depravity and extravagance of his wife, born Olive
-Wilmot, who called herself Princess of Cumberland. He died within
-the rules of the King’s Bench Prison.
-
-By J. T. SERRES (1759-1825).
-
-_Lent by Mr. H. Oppenheimer._
-
-
-56 FIFE HOUSE FROM THE THAMES.
-
-Watercolour. 8¾ by 9½ in.
-
-Fife House, Whitehall Yard, built for James Duff, second Earl of Fife
-in 1772, was let by his executors to the Earl of Liverpool, who died
-there in 1828, when Prime Minister. It was next to the late United
-Service Institution originally Vanbrugh’s “Goose-pie,” and was pulled
-down in 1869.
-
-By G. SHEPHERD, 1805.
-
-_Lent by Mr. E. H. Coles._
-
-
-57 MELBOURNE HOUSE, NOW THE ALBANY, PICCADILLY.
-
-Wash drawing in Indian ink. 8½ by 6 in.
-
-Designed by Sir William Chambers, and sold in 1771 by the first
-Lord Holland to the first Viscount Melbourne, who exchanged it with
-Frederick, Duke of York and _Albany_ for Melbourne (latterly called
-Dover) House, Whitehall. It was afterwards converted into chambers,
-the garden behind being built over with additional sets of rooms.
-
-Frederick Nash, who drew this, was son of a builder in Lambeth, and
-studied under Malton the younger, being also employed as a draughtsman
-by Sir R. Smirke. He began exhibiting at the Academy in 1800, became
-a member of the Old Watercolour Society, and architectural draughtsman
-to the Society of Antiquaries.
-
-By F. NASH (1782-1856).
-
-_Lent by H.M. the King._
-
-
-58 RIVER VIEW FROM BELOW YORK WATER-GATE.
-
-Watercolour. 9½ by 6 in.
-
-The artist who painted this was son of George Barret, R.A., and
-in 1804 was a foundation member of the Old Watercolour Society. He
-excelled in classical landscapes, and published a book on the “Theory
-and Practice of Watercolour Painting.”
-
-By G. BARRET the Younger (1767-1842).
-
-_Lent by Mr. H. C. Levis._
-
-
-PLATE XXIII. 59 ST. DUNSTAN’S-IN-THE-WEST, FLEET STREET.
-
-Watercolour on etched outline. 18¾ by 13 in.
-
-The old Church, of early foundation, had been damaged in the Great
-Fire, and was repeatedly altered and patched. It stood more forward in
-the street than the present building. When the church was taken down,
-about 1830, the projecting clock, with its figures which struck the
-hours and quarters, was bought by the then Marquess of Hertford, and
-moved to his villa in the Regent’s Park (hence called St. Dunstan’s),
-long occupied by the first Lord Aldenham, where it still remains.
-The statue of Queen Elizabeth at the east end of the church came
-from Ludgate, taken down in 1760, and is now over the entrance of
-the present church vestry. On the edge of the pavement is a porters’
-rest. Temple Bar in mid-distance.
-
-By T. MALTON the Elder (1726-1801).
-
-_Lent by Lord Aldenham._
-
-
-60 MIDDLE TEMPLE HALL FROM SOUTH-EAST.
-
-Watercolour. 9¾ by 6¾ in.
-
-Built in 1572. Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” is mentioned by a student
-named Manningham as having been performed here on 2 February 1601-2.
-The outside was dressed with stone in 1757.
-
-To spectator’s left the Temple Fountain is shown, approached by steps.
-
-_Lent by Sir E. Coates._
-
-
-PLATE XXIV. 61 WESTMINSTER ABBEY FROM DEAN’S YARD.
-
-18¼ by 12¾ in.
-
-A general view of the Abbey from the south-west, Westminster schoolboys
-and masters in foreground. There is an engraving of this subject.
-
-By T. MALTON the Elder (1726-1801).
-
-_Lent by the City of Birmingham Art Gallery._
-
-
-62 BEAUCHAMP TOWER—TOWER OF LONDON.
-
-Watercolour. 6 by 6¾ in.
-
-Under the mount are the words in pencil “Beauchamp Tower,” and this
-is probably correct. The building, however, has been much altered
-since 1798.
-
-Charles Tomkins, painter and aquatint engraver, son of W. Tomkins,
-A.R.A., did a number of topographical views of London. In 1796 he
-published a “Tour in the Isle of Wight,” with eighty engravings, and
-in 1805 “Views of Reading Abbey.”
-
-By C. TOMKINS, 1798 (1757-1810).
-
-_Lent by Mr. E. H. Coles._
-
-
-PLATE XXV. 63 WAPPING.
-
-21¼ by 16¾ in.
-
-Important houses on river front. Boat building in progress.
-
-By T. GIRTIN (1773-1802).
-
-_Lent by the Leicester Art Gallery._
-
-
-PLATE XXVI. 64 EAST INDIA HOUSE FROM THE WEST.
-
-Watercolour. 38 by 28 in.
-
-In “Relics of the Hon. East India Company,” illustrations by W.
-Griggs, letterpress by Sir George Birdwood and W. Foster, a plate
-from this watercolour is described as follows: “The House occupied
-by the East India Company in Leadenhall Street, as refaced in 1726.
-From a coloured drawing by T. Malton, March 1800.”
-
-The East India House, on the south side of Leadenhall Street, is shown
-on spectator’s right; crowds on the pavement, among them Indians; a
-coach in the roadway. Opposite are old buildings which escaped the
-Great Fire.
-
-As already implied by the titles, there were two Thomas Maltons,
-father and son, and it is sometimes difficult to distinguish their
-work. The father (1726-1801) exhibited London views at the Royal
-Academy in 1772 and 1774. He taught perspective. His watercolours, as
-a rule, were what were known as “tinted drawings,” begun in Indian
-ink. The son (1748-1804) received a premium at the Royal Society of
-Arts in 1774, and a gold medal at the Royal Academy in 1782. In 1792
-he published “A Picturesque Tour through the Cities of London and
-Westminster containing a hundred aquatints.” He also exhibited London
-views at the Royal Academy.
-
-By T. MALTON the Younger (1748-1804).
-
-_Lent by the Secretary of State for India._
-
-
-65 THE GENERAL COURT-ROOM, EAST INDIA HOUSE.
-
-Watercolour. 7¾ by 5¾ in.
-
-_Lent by the Secretary of State for India._
-
-
-66 THE DIRECTORS’ COURT-ROOM, EAST INDIA HOUSE.
-
-Watercolour. 8¾ by 6 in.
-
-Shows the two high chairs here exhibited.
-
-_Lent by the Secretary of State for India._
-
-
-PLATE XXVII. 67 SADLER’S WELLS.
-
-Oil picture. 15 by 10¾ in.
-
-Sadler’s Wells, between the New River Head and St. John Street Road,
-Islington, was so called from a spring of mineral water discovered
-there by a man named Sadler, who in 1683 opened a music-room connected
-with it. In course of time rope dancing, tumbling, pantomime, and
-other entertainments took place there. About 1790 it became a theatre,
-being still among fields. The New River flowed by, and water was
-introduced from it to a large tank beneath the floor of the stage—used
-for naval spectacles, etc.
-
-Here in 1832 T. P. Cooke made his first appearance as William in
-“Black-Eyed Susan.” The theatre fell into disrepute, but was revived
-by Phelps who, 1844-62, made it “the home of the legitimate drama.”
-Closed for some years, it was rebuilt in 1879, and for a short time
-was under the management of Mrs. Bateman. This picture agrees with
-the view of the old house in Wilkinson’s “Londina Illustrata.”
-
-By R. C. ANDREWS, 1792.
-
-_Lent by the Hon. Lady Lyttelton._
-
-
-PLATE XXVIII. 68 GREEN PARK, 1760.
-
-Oil picture. 50 by 31 in.
-
-In the foreground is a man seated on a rail, with what looks like a
-plan or drawing in his left hand. He turns to the spectator and, with
-his right, points in the direction of Spencer House, the park front
-of which still remains unaltered. This figure, in all likelihood,
-represents John Vardy, the architect who designed it. The pond is
-wrongly named Rosamond’s Pond on the frame. It is mentioned in the
-Calendar of Treasury Papers, 9 June 1725, as a “canal or basin lately
-made over against Devonshire House,” and was soon afterwards converted
-into a reservoir of Chelsea Waterworks. A walk by it, planted with
-trees, was called the Queen’s Walk. This reservoir was enlarged in
-1729, and filled up in 1856. The Green Park Rosamond’s Pond was in
-the old bed of the Tyburn, much farther west. A more famous Rosamond’s
-Pond, in St. James’s Park, disappeared 1770. All three are marked on
-Rocque’s map of 1746. The figures scattered about the foreground and
-reflected in the water show very well the costume of the period. In
-the distance is Buckingham House (see No. 48).
-
-By W. HOGARTH, 1760 (1697-1764).
-
-_Lent by the Earl Spencer._
-
-
-69 NORTHUMBERLAND HOUSE, KING CHARLES’S STATUE, AND THE GOLDEN CROSS,
-CHARING CROSS.
-
-Oil picture. 16 by 9 in.
-
-This historic mansion was built _c._ 1605 for Henry Howard, Earl of
-Northampton, and left by him to his nephew, Thomas Howard, Earl of
-Suffolk. It came to the Percys through the marriage, in 1642, of
-the daughter of the second Earl of Suffolk with the tenth Earl of
-Northumberland. The house was sold under the compulsory clause of
-an Act of Parliament in 1873, and Northumberland Avenue covers the
-site. The lion on the front is of lead, and is now at Syon House,
-Isleworth. The statue of Charles I was the work of Hubert Le Sœur, and
-the pedestal, according to Horace Walpole, was by Grinling Gibbons,
-but it is now generally assigned to Joshua Marshall, master mason. On
-the left appears the famous old Golden Cross coaching inn, its sign
-overhanging the roadway. It was rebuilt in 1832. An engraving of this
-design, issued in 1753, has on it “Canaletti pinxt et delint.—T
-Bowles sculpt.” It was republished by Laurie and Whittle in 1794.
-
-By CANALETTO, 1697-1768.
-
-_Lent by the Marquess of Sligo._
-
-
-70 FOUNDLING HOSPITAL.
-
-Oil picture. A circle, 21 in. in diameter.
-
-William Hogarth was most active in helping the Foundling Hospital
-during its early period. In the charter of incorporation he appears as
-a “Governor and Guardian.” Immediately afterwards, in 1740, he gave
-one of his masterpieces, the portrait of Captain Coram, founder, and
-within a few years the “March to Finchley,” and other pictures. In
-1746 various painters were induced through his influence to present
-examples of their work; among them were F. Hayman, S. Scott, R. Wilson,
-and T. Gainsborough, and all were elected Governors excepting the
-last-named, then a mere lad, who, after some years’ work in London,
-had lately returned to Norfolk. As time went on further help of
-this kind was forthcoming, crowds flocked to see the paintings, and
-the success of such informal exhibitions prepared the way for the
-foundation of the Royal Academy.
-
-The building here shown was designed by Theodore Jacobsen, who came
-of a family long connected with the Steelyard, and whose portrait
-was painted by Hudson.
-
-The site of the Hospital had been part of Lamb’s Conduit Fields. Over
-the wall, to spectator’s left, is the burial ground of the parish of
-St. George the Martyr, now a public garden.
-
-By R. WILSON, R.A., 1746 (1714-1782).
-
-_Lent by the Foundling Hospital._
-
-
-PLATE XXIX. 71 ST. GEORGE’S HOSPITAL.
-
-Oil picture. A circle, 21 in. in diameter.
-
-The second picture by Wilson represents St. George’s Hospital from
-the Green Park. Until 1733 the central part had been the suburban
-residence of the second Viscount Lanesborough, created an earl in
-1756. It was rebuilt in 1828-29, and since then has been more than
-once enlarged.
-
-By R. WILSON, R.A., 1746 (1714-1782).
-
-_Lent by the Foundling Hospital._
-
-
-PLATE XXX. 72 THE CHARTERHOUSE.
-
-Oil picture. A circle, 21 in. in diameter.
-
-An interesting example of Gainsborough’s early work. It is astonishing
-that when he presented it (in the year of his marriage) he was only
-nineteen, but the authorities of the Foundling Hospital have no
-doubt that it was given by him in 1746. The scene depicted at the
-Charterhouse is the “Terrace,” a paved walk resting on the arcade
-built with it by the Duke of Norfolk, 1565-1571, as a double ambulatory
-to his tennis court. The terrace overlooks (to spectator’s left) the
-site of the great cloister of the ancient monastery, afterwards the
-Duke’s garden, then the “Upper Green” or match-ground of the school,
-and now the Merchant Taylors’ playground. The tower with light shining
-on it is the chapel tower.
-
-By T. GAINSBOROUGH, R.A., 1746 (1727-1788).
-
-_Lent by the Foundling Hospital._
-
-
-PLATE XXXI. 73 ALDGATE SCHOOL AND WATCH-HOUSE AND TOWER OF CHURCH.
-
-Pen and wash drawing. 10 by 9½ in.
-
-The church of St. Botolph, Aldgate, was rebuilt in 1744, from the
-designs of George Dance the elder. In 1710 Sir John Cass, alderman,
-had presented this school near the church with shops and a vault
-beneath, for the benefit of the ward, and he afterwards left property
-for educational purposes, which has become of great value. About 1750
-a lead statue of him, modelled by Roubiliac, was placed in front of
-the building. In 1762 the school was moved into a house in Church Row,
-the original building being used for other purposes, but this statue
-and statuettes of a schoolboy and a schoolgirl remained in their
-niches as here shown. The building was not destroyed until many years
-afterwards. Here one sees that in 1815 part of it was a watch-house.
-Most of the site has been absorbed by a widening of Houndsditch.
-The statue of Sir John is now in the modern building known as the
-Cass Foundation, Jewry Street. The drawing was done for Wilkinson’s
-“Londina Illustrata,” but does not appear in that publication.
-
-By R. B. SCHNEBBELIE (died about 1849).
-
-_Lent by Sir E. Coates._
-
-
-74 INTERIOR OF REGENCY THEATRE.
-
-Watercolour. 8¾ by 6¾ in.
-
-The Regency Theatre, Tottenham Street, Tottenham Court Road, was built
-on the site of a concert room. After being renamed several times and
-passing through various hands, it was remodelled and became the Prince
-of Wales’s theatre under the Bancrofts. They moved to the Haymarket
-in 1880. The Prince of Wales’s theatre, after remaining vacant for
-years, was occupied by the Salvation Army, and on the site is now
-the Scala theatre.
-
-By R. B. SCHNEBBELIE, 1816 (died about 1849).
-
-_Lent by H.M. the King._
-
-
-75 THE MANSION HOUSE.
-
-Watercolour. 6 by 8 in.
-
-The residence of the Lord Mayor during his term of office. Built
-on the site of Stocks Market, from the designs of George Dance the
-elder, who was City Surveyor. The first stone was laid in 1739, but
-it was not finished until 1753. The top story here depicted, and once
-familiarly known to cockneys as “the Mare’s Nest,” was taken down in
-1842.
-
-By F. NASH, 1802 (1782-1856).
-
-_Lent by Sir E. Coates._
-
-
-76 RIVER SCENE AT GREENWICH.
-
-Oil picture. 23¼ by 19½ in.
-
-Looking up the river, Greenwich Hospital on the left. Boats and
-shipping. In the preface, p. 14, Samuel Scott has already been referred
-to.
-
-By S. SCOTT (about 1710-1772).
-
-_Lent by Mr. C. H. St. John Hornby._
-
-
-PLATE XXXII. 77 EAST INDIA HOUSE FROM THE EAST.
-
-Watercolour. 37 by 25½ in.
-
-Shows the façade of the East India House as rebuilt according to
-the design of Richard Jupp, architect of the Company, and afterwards
-carried out by his successor, H. Holland, when the house was extended
-east to Lime Street. The pediment of the Ionic portico was filled
-with sculpture by John Bacon, R.A. The ornate building, of which
-we have a separate view (No. 17), is next to the East India House,
-on the west. Beyond are the spire of St. Peter’s, Cornhill, and the
-tower of St. Michael’s.
-
-By T. MALTON the Younger (1748-1804).
-
-_Lent by the Secretary of State for India._
-
-
-PLATE XXXIII. 78 A WATER PAGEANT ON THE THAMES.
-
-Oil picture. 43½ by 23½ in.
-
-This doubtless represents a procession of the Lord Mayor elect from
-Three Crane Stairs to Westminster, which until the adoption of the
-new style in 1752 took place on 29 October (the day after the feast of
-SS. Simon and Jude) and was the precursor of the present Lord Mayor’s
-Show. A gay scene and evidently a noisy one, the river crowded with
-state barges belonging to the Corporation and the City Companies,
-adorned with flags, streamers, pendants, etc., and there is much
-loud music. To spectator’s left is old Somerset House, every point
-of vantage occupied by spectators watching the show. Behind is the
-steeple of St. Mary-le-Strand. St. Paul’s Cathedral is conspicuous,
-and many church towers and spires appear, also the Monument, part of
-old London Bridge before the removal of houses, and in the distance
-the Tower of London.
-
-School of S. SCOTT.
-
-_Lent by the Earl Brownlow._
-
-
-79 OLD BLACKFRIARS BRIDGE.
-
-Oil picture. 20½ by 15¼ in.
-
-This painting is wrongly called on the frame “Southwark Bridge,” the
-first stone of which was not laid until 1815. It represents the first
-Blackfriars Bridge, originally Pitt Bridge, designed by R. Mylne and
-built between 1760 and 1769. The Temple Gardens are shown to the left
-and St. Paul’s beyond them.
-
-R. Burford is chiefly known as the painter and proprietor of panoramas
-in Leicester Square and in the Strand. He also exhibited at the Royal
-Academy from 1812 to 1818. The date on the frames of this and the
-companion picture (No. 80) is 1808, which seems too early for such
-mature work, as he was born in 1792 and would therefore have been
-only sixteen at the time.
-
-By R. BURFORD (1792-1861).
-
-_Lent by Mr. Colin Agnew._
-
-
-80 OLD LONDON BRIDGE.
-
-Oil picture. 20¼ by 16 in.
-
-The picture shows the old bridge after it had been altered by the
-removal of the houses, several arches at the end are blocked by
-waterworks.
-
-The Monument is noteworthy, as are the steeples of the churches of
-St. Magnus, St. Margaret Pattens, and St. Dunstan-in-the-East, all
-designed by Sir Christopher Wren.
-
-By R. BURFORD (1792-1861).
-
-_Lent by Mr. Colin Agnew._
-
-
-PLATE XXXIV. 81 WESTMINSTER BRIDGE AND WESTMINSTER ABBEY FROM THE RIVER.
-
-Oil picture. 35½ by 18 in.
-
-From mid-stream, below bridge. Among prominent buildings, besides the
-Bridge and the Abbey, are the Banqueting House Whitehall, the tower
-of St. Margaret’s Church, and Westminster Hall. In distance to left
-is Lambeth Palace.
-
-By S. SCOTT (about 1710-1772).
-
-_Lent by the Marquess of Sligo._
-
-
-PLATE XXXV. 82 SIR RICHARD STEELE’S COTTAGE, HAMPSTEAD.
-
-Oil picture, 10¾ by 7½ in.
-
-In 1832 Constable exhibited this very small picture at the Royal
-Academy under the title given above. It is numbered 147 in the
-catalogue.
-
-The view was painted from what is now called Haverstock Hill, looking
-towards London, St. Paul’s Cathedral in the distance. There is a
-mezzotint of it by David Lucas. To the small house on the right Steele
-retired during the summer of 1712. In a letter to Pope dated 1 June
-of that year he says: “I am at a solitude, an house between Hampstead
-and London wherein Sir Charles Sedley died.” Isaac Reed, editor of
-Shakespeare, in his edition of Baker’s “Biographia Dramatica,” says:
-“part of the building remains.” In 1855-56 it was a dairy, faced by the
-“Load of Hay” public-house, here shown with Georgian buildings next to
-it. In one of these, then a dame’s school, George Grossmith, second
-of that name, was a pupil. Afterwards Steele’s cottage was divided
-into two tenements. According to F. Baines (“History of Hampstead,”
-1890), they were pulled down in 1867. Steele’s Road covers the site.
-
-By J. CONSTABLE, R.A., 1832 (1776-1837).
-
-_Lent by Mr. R. K. Hodgson._
-
-
-83 VIEW LOOKING DOWN THE RIVER FROM ABOVE ADELPHI TERRACE.
-
-Oil picture. 17½ by 6½ in.
-
-Shows Adelphi Terrace and low buildings along the foreshore, then
-unchanged. In the distance is old London Bridge.
-
-The painter, David Turner, exhibited occasionally at the Free Society
-and the Royal Academy, beginning in 1782; his pictures were small,
-their subjects for the most part being from London and the Thames.
-It is said that his name does not appear after 1801, but a view by
-him, lately sold at Christie’s, was catalogued as representing Lord
-Nelson’s funeral procession on the river.
-
-By D. TURNER.
-
-_Lent by Mr. F. A. White._
-
-
-84 ADELPHI TERRACE AND YORK WATER-GATE.
-
-Oil picture. 9 by 5¾ in.
-
-The same subject as the left-hand portion of No. 83, excepting that
-it includes York Water-gate. Adelphi Terrace was never faced with
-red brick; the painter is trying to improve on Adam’s design.
-
-By D. TURNER.
-
-_Lent by the Fishmongers’ Company._
-
-
-85 WESTMINSTER BRIDGE AND ABBEY.
-
-Oil picture, 11½ by 7½ in.
-
-Taken from a wharf or shed on the Surrey bank.
-
-By D. TURNER.
-
-_Lent by Mr. A. Murray Smith._
-
-
-86 VIEW DOWN THE RIVER FROM THE GARDEN OF OLD SOMERSET HOUSE.
-
-Oil picture. 36 by 18 in.
-
-In foreground to left is part of the garden of old Somerset House,
-with the stairs or landing-stage. St. Paul’s Cathedral and many church
-steeples are shown, also old London Bridge, houses still on it. In
-Southwark are St. Olave’s Church, Tooley Street, St. Saviour’s, now
-Southwark Cathedral, and on the extreme right an octagonal building
-which looks extremely like a Bankside theatre, although, according
-to existing evidence, they had all disappeared long before the date
-of this picture. The last apparently was the Hope, not known to have
-survived after the year 1682, when there was an advertisement in
-the “Loyal Protestant,” with reference to “the Hope on the Bankside,
-being His Majesty’s Bear Garden.”
-
-By S. SCOTT (about 1710-1772).
-
-_Lent by the Marquess of Sligo._
-
-
-PLATE XXXVI. 87 THE PARADE AND WHITEHALL FROM ST. JAMES’S PARK.
-
-Oil picture. 28 by 16½ in.
-
-On what is called the Horse Guards Parade, cavalry and infantry are
-being exercised. To left is the Admiralty, built 1724-26, T. Ripley
-architect; it is surmounted by a semaphore telegraph and has a walled
-garden. Near centre is the Guard-house with clock turret, an earlier
-building than the Horse Guards designed by Kent and finished by Vardy
-1753. In background the Banqueting House and Holbein Gate. To right
-Kent’s Treasury (1733-34), and touching frame a building which has
-been the official home of the Chief Lord of the Treasury since 1735.
-It is only part of the present No. 10 Downing Street, which has been
-altered and added to by Soane and others. See note on No. 96.
-
-By S. SCOTT (about 1710-1772).
-
-_Lent by the Marquess of Sligo._
-
-
-PLATE XXXVII. 88 WHITEHALL FROM THE NORTH.
-
-Oil picture. 28 by 16½ in.
-
-Chief building to left is the Banqueting House, designed by Inigo
-Jones and erected 1619-22, afterwards a royal chapel, now added to
-(with loss of symmetry) and used by the United Service Institution. The
-first English example of pure Palladian design, and still containing
-Rubens’s painted ceiling. Beyond it is wall of Privy Garden. Crossing
-road is the Holbein, or Whitehall, Gate just mentioned, of which
-there is an interesting engraving by Vertue in “Vetusta Monumenta,”
-1725. On each side were four glazed terracotta medallions of fine
-Italian workmanship. It stood originally “thwart the high streete”
-from Charing Cross to Westminster, and was demolished to make room
-for Parliament Street in 1759. The material was moved to Windsor,
-the then Duke of Cumberland, ranger of the park and forest there,
-intending to re-erect it. A gleam of light shows entrance to the Horse
-Guards. House to right with pediment must be the present Paymaster
-General’s Office.
-
-By S. SCOTT (about 1710-1772).
-
-_Lent by the Marquess of Sligo._
-
-
-89 WHITEHALL FROM ST. JAMES’S PARK.
-
-Oil picture. 47½ by 29½ in.
-
-Portion of view shown in No. 87, but dating from near the end of
-Charles II’s reign. It will presently be pointed out that No. 96
-is a still earlier picture of almost the same subject, so to avoid
-repetition this has not been reproduced. Here the Banqueting Hall
-is prominent; other important buildings are as follows: To extreme
-left in background a louvred structure is the Great Hall, Whitehall,
-more clearly visible in Wijck’s view from the river, No. 91. Facing
-park we see the old Guard House as in No. 87. The upper portions of
-Holbein Gate-house and of a battlemented structure are also visible;
-for description of the latter and of the great staircase see note
-on No. 96. A large brick building some distance to right preceded
-Kent’s Treasury, both occupying the site of Henry VIII’s Cockpit,
-which still remained when No. 96 was painted. Little is known about
-the brick building; it appears in views by Kip, 1710 and 1720, and
-in an illustration for J. T. Smith’s “Antiquities of Westminster,”
-from a picture resembling this. There are also slight sketches of
-it in vol. ii of Lond. Top. Society’s Records, illustrating a paper
-by the late Mr. Walter B. Spiers, Soane Curator, who made a special
-study of Whitehall. In foreground of our view, among bewigged and
-gaily-apparelled figures, a black woman and a black page are prominent.
-
-_Lent by Mary, Countess of Ilchester._
-
-
-90 OLD LONDON BRIDGE IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY FROM SOUTHWARK.
-
-Oil picture. 41 by 27½ in.
-
-View of old London Bridge, of City of London, and part of Southwark,
-before the Great Fire. In foreground, beginning on west or left
-side, the following playhouses are shown in their order: the Swan,
-destroyed about 1633, the Hope or Bear Garden, and the second Globe.
-The turreted building below the Swan was the old Manor House of
-Paris Garden. In the reign of Charles I it got a bad reputation, and
-was called Holland’s Leaguer from a woman who occupied it. The next
-important building is the hall of the Bishop of Winchester’s house.
-Then St. Saviour’s, originally church of Priory of St. Mary Overy,
-and now Southwark Cathedral. Passing bridge, on right, is the church
-of St. Olave, Tooley Street, replaced by present structure (lately
-closed) in 1737-39. On Middlesex side, old St. Paul’s has lost its
-spire, fatally injured by lightning in 1561.
-
-There is no space to describe bridge in detail. Before removal of
-houses under Act of Parliament 1756, it was most picturesque, but with
-its many arches, several blocked by mills and waterworks, it checked
-flow of water, hence freezing of Thames above bridge, frost fairs,
-and danger of passing through in boat, or “shooting the bridge.” On
-central pier, projecting to east, was chapel of St. Thomas-à-Becket,
-with crypt beneath. In foreground is Southwark gatehouse (afterwards
-rebuilt), with heads of traitors above parapet, a display originally
-over building farther north, destroyed in 1577.
-
-This picture is clearly not contemporary. It looks like eighteenth
-century work, founded on an earlier painting, or on such engraved
-views as Visscher’s (1616) and the small one in Howell’s “Londinopolis”
-(1657).
-
-_Lent by the Bank of England._
-
-
-PLATE XXXVIII. 91 WESTMINSTER FROM BELOW YORK WATER-GATE.
-
-Oil picture. 60 by 31½ in.
-
-Dates from soon after the Restoration. In the foreground to right is
-York Water-gate, in mid-distance is the Banqueting Hall. Next to that
-the louvred stone building is undoubtedly the great Hall, Whitehall,
-also visible in No. 89. It was about 100 feet long by 45 feet. Here
-several of Shakespeare’s plays were acted before Queen Elizabeth;
-destroyed in fire of 1697, Horse Guards Avenue covers most of the
-site. Below Westminster Abbey, and projecting into river, is the public
-landing stage called Whitehall Stairs, with boats attached to it. The
-site of this is immediately east of the present Horse Guards Avenue.
-Beyond, but at first glance appearing to be part of same structure,
-are Privy Stairs, with covered passage. St. Margaret’s Church,
-Westminster Hall, and St. Stephen’s Chapel are grouped together. To
-extreme left is Lambeth Palace.
-
-The artist, Thomas Wijck, Wyck, or Van Wyck, was born at Beverwyck
-about 1616. He studied with his father, and in Italy, and about the
-time of the Restoration came to England, where he was much employed.
-He painted several other views of London. Died at Haarlem, 1677.
-
-By THOMAS WIJCK (about 1616-1677).
-
-_Lent by Mr. E. C. Grenfell._
-
-
-PLATE XXXIX. 92 WESTMINSTER FROM LAMBETH.
-
-Oil picture. 35 by 20½ in.
-
-Westminster Abbey, St. Margaret’s church tower, Westminster Hall, and
-St. Stephen’s Chapel are prominent, the last foreshortened. The old
-bridge is already finished. In foreground the painter has introduced
-part of a tower of Lambeth Palace, much too near the bridge, but
-improving composition. Nets with large meshes, doubtless salmon nets,
-are hanging on the rails.
-
-By S. SCOTT (?) (about 1710-1772).
-
-_Lent by Mr. P. Norman._
-
-
-PLATE XL. 93 THE OLD STOCKS MARKET.
-
-Oil picture. 50 by 37½ in.
-
-The Stocks Market was established in 1282, “where some time had stood
-a pair of stocks for punishment of offenders.” It was for sale of
-meat and fish until the Great Fire, afterwards a market for fruit
-and vegetables. Of the equestrian statue here shown, Pennant in his
-“London” gives the following account: it was “erected in honour of
-Charles II by his most loyal subject Sir Robert Viner, lord mayor.
-Fortunately his lordship discovered one (made at Leghorn) of John
-Sobieski trampling on a Turk. The good Knight caused some alterations
-to be made, christened the Polish monarch by the name of Charles,
-and bestowed on the turbaned Turk that of Oliver Cromwell.” Horace
-Walpole says the statue “came over unfinished, and a head was added
-by Latham.” Stocks Market was removed in 1737 to clear ground for the
-present Mansion House. The statue lay neglected until 1779, and was
-then given to Mr. Robert Vyner, descendant of the Lord Mayor. He set
-it up in Gautby Park, Lincolnshire, and in 1883 it migrated to Newby
-Hall, Ripon, the home of the last Mr. Robert Vyner, who died in 1915.
-
-The picture is pleasantly lighted by the gay costumes of those engaged
-in marketing. In background appear the tower and dome of church of St.
-Stephen, Walbrook, one of Wren’s masterpieces. There is a well-known
-print of Stocks Market from similar point of view.
-
-Josef van Aken, who painted this, was born at Antwerp, and passed much
-of his life in England. He was much employed by eminent landscape
-artists to paint the costumes of the figures in their pictures, in
-which he is said to have been very skilful. He died in London.
-
-By JOSEF VAN AKEN (1709-1749).
-
-_Lent by the Bank of England._
-
-
-PLATE XLI. 94 RIVER VIEW FROM GARDEN OF OLD SOMERSET HOUSE.
-
-Oil picture. 35½ by 23½ in.
-
-In foreground to left part of the garden with trees and figures.
-The stone gateway with landing-stage, known as Somerset Stairs, is
-prominent. Besides St. Paul’s Cathedral and many church steeples, part
-of old London Bridge appears, houses still on it. This view should
-be compared with No. 86, as the subjects are much alike, though here
-there is a stronger effect. Like No. 69, this picture was ascribed
-to Scott, but after our plate had been printed, an engraving of it by
-E. Rooker, 1750, was found, with on it the words “Canaletti pinxt”;
-the attribution is therefore here changed.
-
-By CANALETTO (1697-1768).
-
-_Lent by Mr. F. A. White._
-
-
-PLATE XLII. 95 OLD WESTMINSTER BRIDGE.
-
-Oil picture. 59 by 37 in.
-
-This picture is specially interesting as a pendant to No. 91. It
-shows a similar view, but is painted from a point much higher up the
-river, and is more modern by eighty or ninety years. Observe the men
-fishing with nets, probably for salmon. As we have mentioned, when
-describing No. 4, Westminster Bridge was opened in 1750. It was the
-second stone bridge built over the Thames at London.
-
-The present bridge dates from 1862.
-
-By S. SCOTT (about 1710-1772).
-
-_Lent by Mr. E. C. Grenfell._
-
-
-PLATE XLIII. 96 WHITEHALL FROM ST. JAMES’S PARK.
-
-Oil picture. 60½ by 37 in.
-
-This picture represents much the same subject as No. 89, though
-it takes in less ground to the north or left, but from variations
-in buildings is evidently some years earlier. The Banqueting House
-appears, and near it on right the Holbein Gate is partly visible.
-Figures are emerging from a great staircase which communicated with
-a passage over this gate. In an article by the late Sir Reginald
-Palgrave, K.C.B., we are told (on the authority of the Sydney papers)
-that Philip, 4th Earl of Pembroke, on the day of Charles I’s execution,
-“out of his chamber” (in the Cockpit part of Whitehall) “looked upon
-the King as he went up those stairs from the Park to the gallery on
-the way to the place of his death.” Hard by, to left of staircase,
-is a doorway to passage through the Tiltyard. To right of staircase
-is a long gallery dating from Henry VIII’s time. Farther to right
-is a two-storied building which appears in Fisher’s plan as part
-of the Duke of Albemarle’s lodgings. Vertue’s copy of this plan is
-dated 1680, but Mr. Spiers gave good reasons for believing that it
-was drawn before 1670.
-
-The battlemented structure behind, with buttresses, mullioned windows,
-and turrets at the angles (mentioned in note on No. 89), was to
-north of passage from Whitehall to the Cockpit, now known as Treasury
-Passage. In the “Gentleman’s Magazine” for 1816 it is described as
-part of the palace built by Cardinal Wolsey, and other writers have
-called it “Wolsey’s Treasury.” Contemporary evidence, however, is
-lacking to prove that any part of Wolsey’s “York Place” stood west
-of the thoroughfare that led from Charing Cross, the land on the
-Park side having apparently been conveyed to Henry VIII by the Abbot
-of Westminster in 1532. The material of this important building was
-brick and stone. Its external character and the ground plan suggest
-a hall, but whatever its origin it was undoubtedly used as a tennis
-court by Henry VIII. Being perhaps of inconvenient shape for the
-later developments of the game, and Charles II having built himself
-a tennis court farther south, floors were inserted in 1664, and it
-became the Duke of Monmouth’s lodging. What remained of it in the
-early nineteenth century was finally swept away to make room for
-Soane’s Council Office as completed by Barry.
-
-The next building in front is the Tudor Cockpit, with its octagonal
-roof still intact. For years it had not served its original purpose,
-but gave the name to a group of lodgings in which it was evidently
-included. The Earl of Pembroke, as we have pointed out, was living
-there at the time of the execution of Charles I, after which Oliver
-Cromwell took possession of these lodgings, and it was probably in the
-veritable Cockpit that music was performed during his protectorate.
-There also plays were acted both in the time of Charles I and after
-the Restoration. Just before that event the lodgings were assigned
-to George Monck, who became Duke of Albemarle, and in Fisher’s plan
-it is marked as part of his lodgings. As mentioned in describing No.
-89, between the dates of the two pictures this architectural relic
-was obliterated by a brick building, which in turn gave way to Kent’s
-Treasury. Until about 1806, the word Cockpit was applied to a famous
-but elusive political centre included in the Treasury and more or less
-on the site of Henry VIII’s building. Lord Welby thought that the
-style “Treasury Chambers Cockpit” was known much later. The passage
-from Whitehall to the Treasury is partly lighted on the north side by
-a large window with mullions and transom, and on the south there is
-a two-light window of similar date. Both are involved externally in
-Tudor brickwork. On the ground floor a Tudor doorway survives, and
-all these must have been in the casing of the original passage that
-led to the Cockpit. As mistakes are frequent on the subject we will
-add that “Cockpit Steps” leading from Birdcage Walk into Dartmouth
-Street have no historical connection with Whitehall. They adjoined
-a later Cockpit surmounted by a cupola, which is marked in a map
-belonging to Strype’s Stow 1720, and was taken down in 1816. There
-was also a “Royal Cockpit” in Tufton Street, Westminster, described
-in the “London Magazine,” November 1822, and in the “Every Night
-Book” as late as 1827, which was probably the last in London.
-
-To right of the Tudor Cockpit is a house with tiled roof and dormer
-windows, apparently that portion of the Prime Minister’s official
-residence adjoining the Treasury and facing the garden, for although
-much altered, the points of resemblance are strong. In vol. ii of the
-Lond. Top. Soc. “Record,” Mr. Spiers attributed the design of this
-building to Wren on account of a ground plan doubtless representing
-it, signed by him with the addition of the letters “Sr Gll” and
-date 1677; but the present writer is of opinion that it already existed
-at the time, and, being on Crown land, that Wren merely signed the
-plan as Surveyor General. In the “Record” a plan by Sir John Soane
-is also given, showing his additions and alterations made in 1825.
-That part of No. 10 containing the entrance from the roadway does not
-belong to the original structure, although they are linked together
-by passages. It forms one block with No. 11, and from the style of
-the pair they cannot have been built much before the middle of the
-eighteenth century, when they appear in views by J. Maurer, partly
-occupying the site of the building with gable and low tower, shown
-in our picture to the extreme right. On this subject the late Mr.
-C. Eyre Pascoe in his volume entitled “No. 10 Downing Street” was
-misinformed.
-
-In studying these old pictures it must always be borne in mind that
-artists attached small importance to rigid accuracy; while fairly
-correct as regards the main buildings they omitted and arranged with
-the object of making an agreeable pattern. The trees in Nos. 89 and
-96 differ completely, and in the latter the head of the ornamental
-canal, formed soon after the Restoration, has been introduced out of
-its place, quite near to the Cockpit. By it are deer, and it is covered
-with waterfowl. On the bank is a copy in bronze of the Borghese statue
-of a gladiator, executed at Rome by Hubert Le Sœur, removed by Queen
-Anne to Hampton Court, and by George IV to Windsor. On the left King
-Charles II is taking a walk accompanied by various dogs and a crowd
-of courtiers. Near the buildings a detachment of soldiers in scarlet
-uniforms marches to the right. The colour carried at their head agrees
-with that mentioned by F. Sandwith, Lancaster Herald 1676-89, as the
-ensign of the Lieutenant-Colonel of the Coldstream Guards “from 1670
-or thereabout to 1683.” According to his description the ensign was
-of “blue taffeta with a plain white cross, surmounted by a cross of
-crimson or a cross of St. George.” Unfortunately on the scale of our
-engraving neither the monarch nor this ensign are distinctly visible.
-There is an illustration of the scene in Pennant’s “London” from No.
-96 or a replica, and a larger one by S. Mazell. Examples of them are
-in the Crace Collection, British Museum.
-
-Hendrik Danckerts, or Dankerts, the artist, was born at the Hague about
-1630, studied in Italy, and after his return was invited to England by
-Charles II, who employed him to paint pictures of royal palaces and
-sea-ports. Walpole speaks of his working in connection with Hollar.
-James II had various landscapes by him, and Samuel Pepys, who calls
-him “the great landscape painter,” mentions seeing him in 1668-69
-and arranging for views of _Whitehall_, Hampton Court, Greenwich,
-and Windsor, to adorn his dining-room panels. Danckerts, who was a
-Roman Catholic, is said to have left England during the Popish Plot
-and to have died at Amsterdam soon afterwards. From what precedes
-we may be sure that the picture was painted between 1670 and about
-1677, perhaps not much after the earlier date.
-
-By HENDRICK DANCKERTS (_c._ 1630-1678).
-
-_Lent by the Earl of Berkeley._
-
-
-97_a_ SEARLE’S BOAT-HOUSE, STANGATE, LAMBETH.
-
-Watercolour. 14 by 9¾ in.
-
-The famous boat builders, of Eton and Oxford, had an establishment on
-the Surrey side, much frequented by Westminster schoolboys before the
-formation of the Embankment and the removal of St. Thomas’s Hospital
-from High Street, Southwark, to Stangate. It will be seen that the
-boat-house was just above Westminster Bridge; it was afterwards moved
-to a point higher up the river.
-
-_Lent by Sir E. Coates._
-
-
-97_b_ BUILDINGS ADJOINING LAMBETH CHURCH.
-
-Watercolour. 10 by 6¼ in.
-
-Shows picturesque but tumbledown buildings formerly along the riverside
-at Lambeth.
-
-_Lent by Sir E. Coates._
-
-
-98_a_ ST. SAVIOUR’S CHURCH, SOUTHWARK.
-
-Watercolour. 9¾ by 7 in.
-
-Originally the church of the Priory of St. Mary Overy, after the
-Reformation St. Saviour’s parish church, and now Southwark Cathedral.
-View of the old nave from the west end, shortly before it was replaced
-by an unsightly nave in 1838-9. This also has disappeared, being
-rebuilt from the designs of the late Sir Arthur Blomfield. The choir
-and tower were “restored” 1822-5, by George Gwilt.
-
-By F. NASH (1782-1856).
-
-_Lent by Sir E. Coates._
-
-
-98_b_ WEST END OF ST. SAVIOUR’S CHURCH, SOUTHWARK, FROM THE SOUTH.
-
-Wash drawing in Indian ink. 6 by 9 in.
-
-Shows the entrance to Montagu Close, which appears also in 98_a_. It
-had been the precinct of Montagu House, taken down in a state of decay
-when the approaches of the present London Bridge were made. Here were
-the cloisters of the Priory. The original Montagu House was built
-by Sir Anthony Brown, afterwards Viscount Montagu. The small sepia
-drawing and the print from it give the other side of the entrance.
-
-J. C. Buckler, who did the larger drawing, belonged to a family of
-architects, and was a good topographical draughtsman. Many Southwark
-views by him are in the Guildhall Library.
-
-By J. C. BUCKLER, 1827 (1770-1851).
-
-_Lent by Sir E. Coates._
-
-
-99_a_ THREE CRANES WHARF.
-
-Wash drawing in Indian ink. 10 by 8¾ in.
-
-The name was derived originally from “three strong cranes of timber
-placed on the Vintry wharf by the Thames side to crane up wines there.”
-They are shown in Visscher’s View (1616). Three Cranes Wharf, below
-Southwark Bridge, and to south of Three Cranes Lane, appears to be
-first mentioned in Rocque’s map, 1746.
-
-By G. SHEPHERD, 1811.
-
-_Lent by Sir E. Coates._
-
-
-99_b_ THREE CRANES WHARF.
-
-Watercolour. 8 by 5½ in.
-
-From rather a more western point of view than the wash drawing. Mr.
-Gardner has ascribed this to “Tompkins.” It must be the work of Charles
-Tomkins, a topographical artist to whom we have already referred.
-
-By C. TOMKINS (1757-1810).
-
-_Lent by Sir E. Coates._
-
-
-100_a_ UNDERCROFT OF CHAPEL OF ELY HOUSE, HOLBORN.
-
-Wash drawing. 4 by 5¼ in.
-
-This curious crypt of the Chapel dedicated to St. Etheldreda, Ely
-Place, still remains.
-
-By J. CARTER, 1776 (1748-1817).
-
-_Lent by Sir E. Coates._
-
-
-PLATE XLIV. 100_b_ ELY PLACE, HOLBORN.
-
-Pen and Indian ink, with a little colour. 15 by 9½ in.
-
-Ely Place was the town mansion of the Bishops of Ely, dating apparently
-from the time of John de Kirkeby, Bishop, who died 1290. John of Gaunt
-died here. Sir Christopher Hatton got hold of part of the garden,
-and built himself a house there, hence Hatton Garden. In 1772 the see
-transferred to the Crown all its rights to Ely Place, a house being
-built as an episcopal residence, now 37 Dover Street, Piccadilly. The
-buildings, excepting St. Etheldreda’s Chapel, were afterwards taken
-down. The Chapel, a fine piece of fourteenth-century architecture,
-belongs to Roman Catholics.
-
-The view is from the west. To epitomise John Carter’s words: To right
-is the Chapel, now much altered and restored; in centre, outside of
-cloister; to left the great Hall, at the end part of the kitchen,
-and above it the tower of St. Andrew’s Church.
-
-By J. CARTER, 1776 (1748-1817).
-
-_Lent by Sir E. Coates._
-
-
-101 SCREEN FORMERLY IN CHAPEL OF ST. ANDREW, IN NORTH TRANSEPT OF
-WESTMINSTER ABBEY.
-
-Indian ink with shields of arms coloured. 17¾ by 20½ in.
-
-This screen replaced one made in the time of Edward III, an
-illustration of the cresting of which appears in Professor Lethaby’s
-“Westminster Abbey and the King’s Craftsmen” (1906). Trickings of the
-coats of arms are given in a Lansdowne manuscript, and they have been
-identified by Mr. Lethaby from a manuscript in his own possession,
-once belonging to H. Keepe, of the Inner Temple, who died in 1688.
-An inscription under the drawing states that the screen was “removed
-for the Coronation early in the eighteenth century.”
-
-Written on the drawing is “Mar: 1722.”
-
-_Lent by Sir E. Coates._
-
-
-102 THE FIRST WINNER OF DOGGETT’S COAT AND BADGE IN HIS WHERRY.
-
-Oil picture. 42 by 33 in.
-
-The annual race for these trophies began on 1 August 1716, the day
-of the accession of George I. Strange to say, the name of the first
-winner is doubtful, but this portrait is contemporary. He is seated
-in his roomy craft; on the river bank are buildings which cannot be
-identified.
-
-Doggett, who provided funds for this event, was a well-known actor,
-and a keen Hanoverian. The race was originally rowed from the Old
-Swan, London Bridge, to the White Swan, Chelsea. One of the most
-famous winners was John Broughton, 1730, who was also for many years
-champion boxer of England.
-
-_Lent by the Watermans’ Company._
-
-
-103 LUDGATE HILL FROM THE WEST.
-
-Oil picture. 31 by 39 in.
-
-On left the church of St. Martin, Ludgate, designed by Sir
-Christopher Wren, its spire contrasting with the dome of St. Paul’s.
-In mid-distance, before the façade of the cathedral, is a crowd
-surrounding a State coach. Ludgate was immediately west of St.
-Martin’s.
-
-William Marlow, who painted this picture, which has been engraved,
-was born in Southwark, 1740. He studied under Samuel Scott and at the
-St. Martin’s Lane Academy, travelled in France and Italy, and achieved
-some success as a landscape painter, exhibiting at the Royal Academy
-and elsewhere, views of London being perhaps his most successful
-work. Horace Walpole, in his note on Scott, praises him highly. He
-died at Twickenham in 1813.
-
-By W. MARLOW, 1792 (1740-1813).
-
-_Lent by the Governor and Directors of the Bank of England._
-
-
-PLATE XLV. 104 RANELAGH.
-
-Oil picture. 56 by 36 in.
-
-The following description of this interesting picture is culled from
-the “Gentleman’s Magazine,” September 1836: “It represents Ranelagh
-Grove, leading to Lord Ranelagh’s house and grounds, Chelsea, so
-celebrated afterwards as a place of fashionable resort. In the
-foreground are figures setting on two dogs to fight, painted in a
-style which reminds one of the ‘Stages of Cruelty.’ Behind is a chariot
-richly ornamented with carving and gilding in the taste of the time,
-containing a lady and gentleman drawn by two white horses. Another
-carriage is seen on the right proceeding towards Chelsea through
-a lane lined with high trees. On the same side of the picture is a
-village fair, with a number of figures, among which may be recognized
-the fire-eater, seen in Hogarth’s ‘Southwark Fair.’ On the left a
-man strongly resembling Colonel Charteris, is conducting a young
-lady attended by two maids, near whom is the puzzling inscription:
-KEE PONT HISS IDE [keep on this side]. The distance is a perspective
-view of a long row of trees with houses on each side, to the present
-day called Ranelagh Grove.”
-
-Richard Jones, first Earl of Ranelagh, built the house at Chelsea
-known by his name in 1689-90, on land granted by lease from the Crown.
-He had here a famous garden. The property was sold in 1733, and soon
-afterwards it became a place of entertainment.
-
-Has been ascribed to HOGARTH; perhaps by F. HAYMAN (1708-1776).
-
-_Lent by Mary, Countess of Ilchester._
-
-
-105 A WEDDING FESTIVAL, BILLINGSGATE MARKET.
-
-Oil picture. 29 by 23½ in.
-
-This painting represents a bit of old Billingsgate. In the distance
-are houses on the Surrey side of the river. The wedding party are being
-entertained by music, their costume belongs to the last quarter of the
-eighteenth century. Above is a sign of a woman’s head. Billingsgate
-was rebuilt in 1850, and again rebuilt and enlarged 1874-77.
-
-_Lent by the Fishmongers’ Company._
-
-
-106 THE ROTUNDA, RANELAGH.
-
-Oil picture. 66 by 35 in.
-
-In 1741 the Rotunda was built on the Ranelagh estate, being first
-opened with a public breakfast 5 April 1742. It soon became a most
-fashionable place of public resort, visited too by the leading literary
-men, until the early part of the nineteenth century. Allusions to
-it would fill a volume. On 30 September 1805 an order was made for
-taking down Ranelagh House and the Rotunda, and the garden, together
-with the sites of these buildings, was not long afterwards added
-to the Royal Hospital grounds. Part of the Hospital may be seen on
-spectator’s right; on the left is a glimpse of the river.
-
-By HAYMAN and HOGARTH.
-
-_Lent by the Earl of Ilchester._
-
-
-PLATE XLVI. 107 OLD LONDON BRIDGE AND NEW LONDON BRIDGE FROM SOUTHWARK.
-
-Watercolour. 26½ by 9¼ in.
-
-This painting, in which body colour has been used for the high lights,
-is of much value as a topographical record. It is signed and dated,
-and shows that old London Bridge was still being used for traffic as
-late as the year 1830, when the new bridge was nearly finished. It
-also gives their relative positions, and the nature of the projecting
-starlings which had been added to break the rush of water on the
-piers. At the end of new London Bridge is the church of St. Michael,
-Crooked Lane, pulled down soon afterwards. The first stone of the new
-bridge was laid 15 June 1825, and it was publicly opened by William
-IV and Queen Adelaide 1 August 1831.
-
-George Belton Moore, the painter of it, often exhibited at the Royal
-Academy, and taught drawing at the Military Academy, Woolwich, and
-at University College. He also wrote on perspective, and on the
-“Principles of Colour applied to Decorative Art.”
-
-By G. B. MOORE, 1830 (1806-1875).
-
-_Lent by Sir E. Coates._
-
-
-108 VIEW OF LONDON FROM HIGH GROUND BEYOND ST. GEORGE’S FIELDS.
-
-Watercolour. 28 by 19 in.
-
-Since this was painted, all south London, with its immediate
-neighbourhood, has been so thickly covered with buildings that the
-artist’s exact point of view cannot be made out. The substantial house
-in the foreground was probably the suburban home of some well-to-do
-merchant. The nearest church, evidently on the Surrey side of the
-river (the tower of which appears a short distance to the right of St.
-Paul’s), must be Christchurch, near the west side of the Blackfriars
-Road. Christchurch parish was created by Act of Parliament in 1671,
-and covers the same ground as the still existing Manor of Paris
-Garden. Inscription as follows: WILLM CAPON PINXT. 1804. WESTMINSTER.
-
-By W. CAPON (1757-1827).
-
-_Lent by Sir E. Coates._
-
-
-109 LONDON FROM WHITEHALL.
-
-Watercolour. 21¼ by 15 in.
-
-View looking down river from garden of the Earl of Fife’s house at
-Whitehall. The distance is somewhat idealized. To left is Somerset
-House. Waterloo Bridge is not yet built, but near its site at south
-end is one of the shot towers, still standing though put to other
-uses. The bridge shown is old Blackfriars, opened 1769, as we have
-said elsewhere.
-
-John Claude Nattes, painter of this and of the next watercolour,
-numbered 110, was an industrious topographical artist. He exhibited
-occasionally at the Royal Academy and was one of the foundation members
-of the Old Watercolour Society, but was expelled for exhibiting what
-was held to be not his own work. With his latest breath he condemned
-the action of the Society. He published several topographical volumes
-illustrated by himself, and drew for other publications.
-
-By J. C. NATTES, 1801 (1765-1822).
-
-_Lent by the Rev. L. Gilbertson._
-
-
-110 LONDON FROM THE TEMPLE GARDENS.
-
-Watercolour. 21 by 14¾ in.
-
-View looking up river apparently from the Temple Gardens. To left is
-the shot tower shown in last view; in distance Westminster Abbey, other
-landmarks being Somerset House, Adelphi Terrace, and York Water-tower.
-
-By J. C. NATTES, 1801 (1765-1822).
-
-_Lent by the Rev. L. Gilbertson._
-
-
-Plate XLVII. 111 ST. PAUL’S CATHEDRAL FROM ST. MARTIN’S-LE-GRAND.
-
-Watercolour. 14¾ by 19 in.
-
-This view was engraved by J. Baily and published by J. Girtin in 1819.
-
-By T. GIRTIN (1773-1802).
-
-_Lent by Sir Walter Prideaux._
-
-
-PLATE XLVIII. 112 OLD WESTMINSTER.
-
-Watercolour. 14¾ by 10 in.
-
-An unfinished sketch on sugar paper. Old houses long ago cleared
-away, Westminster Abbey in background.
-
-By D. COX (1783-1859).
-
-_Lent by the Birmingham Art Gallery._
-
-
-113 BUCKINGHAM HOUSE FROM THE GREEN PARK.
-
-Watercolour. 17 by 8½ in.
-
-This is unlike any other painting by David Cox known to the present
-writer, but it comes from an undeniable source, and is interesting
-as a topographical record. It represents, not Kensington Palace as
-stated on the frame, but Buckingham House, the end of the Mall, and
-road to Constitution Hill (see Nos. 48_a_ and 68), and the date shows
-that it was painted just before the destruction or complete alteration
-of the building.
-
-By D. COX, 1825 (1783-1859).
-
-_Lent by the Birmingham Art Gallery._
-
-
-114 THE TEMPLE STAIRS.
-
-Watercolour. 23½ by 15¼ in.
-
-The above is the title given to this painting by Mr. Gardner; the
-stairs are not very apparent. The view shows part of the Temple, and
-some picturesque old riverside buildings to the east of it. In the
-background are the spires of St. Bride’s and St. Martin’s, Ludgate.
-It is undated.
-
-_Lent by Sir E. Coates._
-
-
-115 MONUMENT TO MARTIN BOND IN ST. HELEN’S CHURCH, BISHOPSGATE.
-
-Watercolour. 10¼ by 13½ in.
-
-Shows him as Captain of Trained Bands seated in his tent at Tilbury
-camp, 1588. Two sentinels guard the entrance, and a page holds his
-horse. There is a similar monument (1625) to Sir Charles Montagu in
-Barking Church, Essex. Both have special interest on account of the
-military costumes. Martin Bond died in 1643 at the age of eighty-five.
-It will be seen on the last page of catalogue that he gave to St.
-Bartholomew’s Hospital the pewter inkstand here exhibited.
-
-_Lent by Mr. P. Norman._
-
-
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-FURNITURE AND OTHER OBJECTS OF ART
-
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-
-
-The furniture in this exhibition lent by the Secretary of State
-for India, the Worshipful Companies of Carpenters, Stationers and
-Clothworkers, and the Master of the Charterhouse, has been chosen as
-a fitting accompaniment to the drawings and paintings of Old London.
-They form a representative selection of such relics of London’s history
-as have survived the vicissitudes of Time. A certain individuality
-stamps the furniture. It was made for a definite reason, had a serious
-and official purpose to fulfil, and thus differs in some respects
-from the contemporary furniture of the home, in the making of which
-comfort, luxury, elegance and other domestic requirements had to
-be considered. As would be expected, therefore, the furniture from
-the India Office, from the City Halls and from the Charterhouse,
-is essentially severe in character, “masculine and unaffected,” and
-thoroughly sound both in design and workmanship.
-
-The largest and most important collection is that from the Secretary
-of State for India. The India Office is fortunate in possessing
-a considerable number of fine pieces of English furniture of the
-eighteenth century. Most of these were transferred in the nineteenth
-century from the “Old India House” in Leadenhall Street at the time
-when the India Office absorbed the business of the East India Company.
-These historical events are discussed in full detail in “Records of
-the Honourable East India Company,” by Sir George Birdwood and William
-Foster.
-
-A variety of interesting pieces have been lent by the Worshipful
-Companies of Carpenters, Stationers and Clothworkers. In the course
-of their history the City Companies have suffered many misfortunes.
-Of these the most disastrous was the Great Fire of 1666, which wrought
-havoc with their Halls and historic possessions. Most of the Halls were
-destroyed or suffered damage. Many were rebuilt under the influence
-of Sir Christopher Wren and his successors, but in most cases have
-been reconstructed in the nineteenth century. Fortunately, some of the
-panelling, carvings and furniture have been preserved and incorporated
-in the new buildings. The octagonal table in this exhibition, lent
-by the Carpenters’ Company, is one of the few existing pieces earlier
-in date than the Great Fire.
-
-From the Charterhouse a few good pieces of English furniture have
-been obtained. First a Carthusian monastery, afterwards a nobleman’s
-palace, and lastly a Pensioners’ Hospital, the Charterhouse still shows
-records of the different phases of its romantic history. The splendid
-Elizabethan staircase and some of the panelling belong to the period
-when the Duke of Norfolk occupied the building as a residence. Other
-furniture and decoration commemorates the foundation of the hospital by
-Thomas Sutton, a wealthy trader and philanthropist; worthy of special
-mention is the small communion table in the chapel, bearing his arms
-and a mutilated date (16—), perhaps the most distinguished piece of
-furniture of its period which the country possesses. Unfortunately, it
-has not been possible to secure this table for the present exhibition.
-
-Much of the furniture, here exhibited, was lent to the exhibition at
-Bethnal Green Museum organized by the Department of Science and Art
-in 1896.
-
- O. B.
-
-
-[Illustration]
-
-
-_Near the Alcove_
-
-ARM-CHAIR, walnut wood, carved with the head of Neptune and acanthus
-foliage, with front legs in the form of dolphins: upholstered in red
-velvet, embroidered on the back in coloured silks and silver thread
-with the arms of the East India Company, 1698 (ar. a cross gu. in the
-dexter chief quarter an escutcheon of the arms of France and England,
-quarterly, the shield ornamented and regally crowned or. _Crest_:
-a lion ramp. guard. or, supporting between the fore paws a regal
-crown ppr. _Supporters_: two lions ramp. guard. or, each supporting
-a banner erect ar. charged with a cross gu. _Motto_: AUSPICIO REGIS
-ET SENATUS ANGLIÆ).
-
-In the “Old India House” this chair was the seat of the Chairman when
-presiding over the Court of Directors; it is shown in T. H. Shepherd’s
-drawing in this exhibition, No. 66. At the India Office it has been
-used by each successive Secretary of State for India in Council.
-
-Height, 4 ft. 11½ in.
-
-Middle of the XVIIIth century.
-
-_Lent by the Secretary of State for India._
-
-
-_On either side of the Alcove_
-
-CLOCK, with circular dial, inscribed AYNSTH THWAITES LONDON, in
-case of gilt brass, supported on pedestal of mahogany and other woods,
-carved on the frieze with a demi-figure and scrolled foliage.
-
-INSTRUMENT (companion to above) showing sidereal time, the day of the
-week, month of the year, phases of the moon, direction of the wind
-and the weather: inscribed AYNSTH THWAITES CLERKENWELL LONDON.
-
-The clock was brought from the “Old India House” in Leadenhall Street.
-At the time the companion piece was lost sight of, but years afterwards
-was found on the continent by Mr. Bertram Currie, who purchased it
-and gave it back to the India Office (see “Records of the Honourable
-East India Company”).
-
-Height (of each), 6 ft. 11½ in.
-
-Date, 1760-1770.
-
-_Lent by the Secretary of State for India._
-
-
-_Near the Alcove_
-
-ARM-CHAIR, walnut wood, the arms carved with masks and foliage, the
-legs ending in paw feet and carved with negro masks and leafage:
-upholstered in red velvet embroidered on the back with the crest of
-the East India Company; it is shown in No. 66.
-
-Height, 4 ft. 9½ in.
-
-First half of the XVIIIth century.
-
-_Lent by the Secretary of State for India._
-
-
-_Against the East Wall_
-
-PAIR OF CHAIRS, mahogany, with “ladder” backs, and seats covered with
-red leather.
-
-Height (of each), 3 ft. ½ in.
-
-Third quarter of the XVIIIth century.
-
-_Lent by the Secretary of State for India._
-
-
-_Against the West Wall_
-
-ARM-CHAIR, mahogany, with shield-shaped back and seat covered with
-red leather.
-
-Style of Hepplewhite.
-
-Height, 3 ft. 3½ in.
-
-Last quarter of the XVIIIth century.
-
-_Lent by the Secretary of State for India._
-
-ARM-CHAIR, mahogany, the upper rail of the back carved with the crest
-of the East India Company within a circular medallion.
-
-Height, 2 ft. 8½ in.
-
-Early XIXth century.
-
-_Lent by the Secretary of State for India._
-
-ARM-CHAIR, mahogany, the upper rail of the back surmounted by a
-lunette carved with the crest of the East India Company.
-
-Height, 3 ft. 1⅜ in.
-
-Early XIXth century.
-
-_Lent by the Secretary of State for India._
-
-ARM-CHAIR, mahogany, with square back having three vertical rails,
-and seat covered with red leather.
-
-Height, 3 ft.
-
-Last quarter of the XVIIIth century.
-
-_Lent by the Secretary of State for India._
-
-
-_In the Centre of the Gallery_
-
-TABLE, oak, composed of octagonal top supported on eight baluster
-legs joined by arches below the top; the spandrels are carved with
-the initials R. W. (Richard Wyatt, Master); G. I. (G. Isack, Warden);
-I. R. (J. Reeve, Warden); and W. W. (W. Willson, Warden), and the
-date 1606.
-
-Height, 2 ft. 10 in. Width of top, 3 ft. 4¼ in.
-
-Dated 1606.
-
-_Lent by the Worshipful Company of Carpenters._
-
-
-_On the South Wall_
-
-SWORD REST, oak, carved, painted and gilt with the Royal Arms, the
-Arms of the City of London, of Sir Francis Chaplin, Bart. (Master,
-1668; Lord Mayor of London, 1677), and of the Clothworkers’ Company.
-
-Height, 6 ft. 4½ in.
-
-Dated 1677 (the painting and gilding renewed).
-
-_Lent by the Worshipful Company of Clothworkers._
-
-
-_In the Alcove_
-
-ARM-CHAIR, mahogany, with solid vase-shaped splat and seat covered
-with leather.
-
-Height, 3 ft. 5½ in.
-
-First half of the XVIIIth century.
-
-_Lent by the Worshipful Company of Clothworkers._
-
-
-_Near the South Wall_
-
-TABLE, oak, with plain column legs.
-
-Length, 6 ft. 8½ in.
-
-In the style of the XVIIth century.
-
-_Lent by the Worshipful Company of Stationers._
-
-
-_Against the East Wall_
-
-ARM-CHAIR and CHAIR, mahogany, with pierced splats, and seats covered
-with horsehair.
-
-Height (arm-chair), 3 ft. 8½ in.
-
-Height (chair), 3 ft. 2½ in.
-
-Middle of the XVIIIth century.
-
-_Lent by the Worshipful Company of Stationers._
-
-CARD-TABLE, rosewood, with hinged top inlaid with floral designs in
-mother-of-pearl.
-
-Height, 2 ft.; top, 2 ft. 8¼ in.
-
-Early XVIIIth century (with Chinese inlay).
-
-_Lent by the Worshipful Company of Stationers._
-
-ARM-CHAIR and TWO CHAIRS, mahogany, each with pierced splat and leaf
-carving; seats covered with horsehair.
-
-Height (arm-chair), 3 ft. 2 in.
-
-Height (chair), 3 ft. 1 in.
-
-Third quarter of the XVIIIth century.
-
-_Lent by the Master of the Charterhouse._
-
-
-_Near the Octagonal Table_
-
-PAIR OF STOOLS, of oak.
-
-Height, 1 ft. 8 in., and 1 ft. 10½ in.
-
-XVIth century.
-
-_Lent by the Master of the Charterhouse._
-
-
-_Near the South Wall_
-
-DESK, mahogany, with hinged slope for writing and drawing in upper
-part, the stand fitted with a drawer supported on two central legs.
-
-Height, 4 ft. Width, 3 ft.
-
-End of the XVIIIth century.
-
-_Lent by the Master of the Charterhouse._
-
-
-_On the Long Table_
-
-VASE, “crater” shaped, with two handles. On each side are painted the
-arms of the East India Company, with a rose spray below: the ground
-is pink, and all mouldings are heavily gilt. Mark impressed on the
-base, F B B under a crown (Flight, Barr and Barr, Worcester, 1813-40).
-
-English, XIXth century.
-
-_Lent by Mr. Herbert Allen._
-
-TWO “NANKING” DISHES. Oval blue-and-white dishes, forming part of a
-dinner service, each piece of which bears the crest of the Merchant
-Taylors’ Company, viz.: a lamb, bearing on its shoulder a banner,
-charged with a cross.
-
-Chinese, XVIIIth century.
-
-_Lent by the Worshipful Company of Merchant Taylors._
-
-
-_On the Desk_
-
-_The Master’s Bell of the Haberdashers’ Company._ White metal
-table-bell, with decorations of an armorial character between two
-bands of inscriptions: “LOF GOD VAN AL” and “ME FECIT JOHANNES A FINE
-AO 1549.” Johannes A Fine of Malines is well known as a maker of
-_clochettes_, of which some forty are recorded as bearing his name.
-
-Flemish, XVIth century.
-
-_Lent by the Worshipful Company of Haberdashers._
-
-
-_On the Mantelpiece_
-
-PAIR OF BRASS CANDLESTICKS, shaped like Corinthian columns.
-
-English, early XIXth century.
-
-_Lent by the Secretary of State for India._
-
-TIMEPIECE in mahogany, lancet-shaped case, the dial inscribed:
-“THWAITES AND REED.”
-
-About 1820.
-
-_Lent by the Secretary of State for India._
-
-
-_On the Octagonal Table_
-
-PEWTER INKSTAND. The steep-pitched lid is inscribed “The guifte of
-Mr. Martin Bonnde,” while the flat top bears the arms of the donor
-and the date 1619. The inkstand is stamped T L in a beaded circle,
-and with two fleur-de-lys.
-
-Mr. Martin Bond was a member of the well-known family which owned
-Crosby Place; he was a Captain of Trained Bands, and was Treasurer of
-the House of the Poor, commonly known as St. Bartholomew’s Hospital,
-from 1620 to 1642.
-
-English, XVIIth century.
-
-_Lent by the Treasurer and Almoners of St. Bartholomew’s Hospital._
-
-
-
-
-[Illustration]
-
-
-
-
-[Illustration]
-
-LONDON: PRINTED AT THE CHISWICK PRESS
-
-TOOKS COURT, CHANCERY LANE.
-
-
-
-
- Plate I
-
- [Illustration: 1. OLD LONDON BRIDGE
- G. YATES, 1826]
-
- Plate II
-
- [Illustration: 3. BOLINGBROKE HOUSE, BATTERSEA
- ARTIST UNKNOWN, _c._ 1800]
-
- Plate III
-
- [Illustration: 4. OLD WESTMINSTER BRIDGE
- CANALETTO, _c._ 1747 (1677-1768)]
-
- Plate IV
-
- [Illustration: 6. VIEW DOWN RIVER FROM WESTMINSTER
- W. HOLLAR (1607-1677)]
-
- Plate V
-
- [Illustration: 8. WESTMINSTER BRIDGE AND ABBEY
- CANALETTO, _c._ 1747 (1677-1768)]
-
- Plate VI
-
- [Illustration: 9. WESTMINSTER ABBEY, SOUTH VIEW FROM RIVER
- W. HOLLAR (1607-1677)]
-
- Plate VII
-
- [Illustration: 11. VIEW UP RIVER TO WESTMINSTER
- CANALETTO, _c._ 1747 (1697-1768)]
-
- Plate VIII
-
- [Illustration: 12. OLD WESTMINSTER BRIDGE
- CANALETTO, _c._ 1748 (1697-1768)]
-
- Plate IX
-
- [Illustration: 14. PIAZZA, COVENT GARDEN
- T. SANDBY, R.A. (1721-1798)]
-
- Plate X
-
- [Illustration: 16. OLD SOMERSET HOUSE AND GARDEN
- T. SANDBY, R. A. (1721-1798)]
-
- Plate XI
-
- [Illustration: 19. OLD LONDON BRIDGE FROM BILLINGSGATE
- G. YATES, 1828]
-
- Plate XII
-
- [Illustration: 23. CAMP NEAR SERPENTINE, HYDE PARK, 1780
- PAUL SANDBY, R. A., 1780 (1725-1809)]
-
- Plate XIII
-
- [Illustration: 31. INTERIOR OF SECOND ROYAL EXCHANGE
- ARTIST UNKNOWN, _c._ 1810]
-
- Plate XIV
-
- [Illustration: 33. CHURCH OF ST. PETER LE POOR, OLD BROAD STREET
- ARTIST UNKNOWN]
-
- Plate XV
-
- [Illustration: 34. VIEW FROM THE CHURCHYARD OF ST.
- MARTIN’S-IN-THE-FIELDS
- W. HUNT (1790-1864)]
-
- Plate XVI
-
- [Illustration: 35. ENCAMPMENT IN THE GROUNDS OF MONTAGUE HOUSE
- S. H. GRIMM, 1780 (1734-1794)]
-
- Plate XVII
-
- [Illustration: 37. CHANTREY CHAPEL OF HENRY V, WESTMINSTER ABBEY
- JOHN CARTER, 1786 (1748-1817)]
-
- Plate XVIII
-
- [Illustration: 38. ABBOT ISLIP’S CHAPEL, WESTMINSTER ABBEY
- J. M. W. TURNER, R.A., 1796 (1775-1851)]
-
- Plate XIX
-
- [Illustration: 41. HALL OF BROTHERHOOD OF HOLY TRINITY,
- ALDERSGATE
- W. CAPON, 1790 (1757-1827)]
-
- Plate XX
-
- [Illustration: 45. SITE OF EUSTON SQUARE, 1809
- T. ROWLANDSON, 1809 (1756-1827)]
-
- PLATE XXI
-
- [Illustration: 47. THE OLD CHEESE-CAKE HOUSE, HYDE PARK.
- 1797]
-
- Plate XXII
-
- [Illustration: 49. FISHMONGERS’ HALL FROM THE RIVER
- _c._ 1810]
-
- Plate XXIII
-
- [Illustration: 59. ST. DUNSTAN’S-IN-THE-WEST, FLEET STREET
- T. MALTON THE ELDER (1726-1801)]
-
- Plate XXIV
-
- [Illustration: 61. WESTMINSTER ABBEY FROM DEAN’S YARD
- T. MALTON THE ELDER (1726-1801)]
-
- Plate XXV
-
- [Illustration: 63. WAPPING
- THOMAS GIRTIN (1773-1802)]
-
- Plate XXVI
-
- [Illustration: 64. EAST INDIA HOUSE FROM THE WEST
- T. MALTON THE YOUNGER (1748-1804)]
-
- Plate XXVII
-
- [Illustration: 67. SADLER’S WELLS
- R. C. ANDREWS]
-
- Plate XXVIII
-
- [Illustration: 68. GREEN PARK, 1760
- W. HOGARTH, 1760 (1697-1764)]
-
- Plate XXIX
-
- [Illustration: 71. ST. GEORGE’S HOSPITAL
- R. WILSON, R. A., 1746 (1714-1782)]
-
- Plate XXX
-
- [Illustration: 72. THE CHARTERHOUSE
- THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH, R. A., 1746 (1727-1788)]
-
- Plate XXXI
-
- [Illustration: 73. ALDGATE PARISH SCHOOL AND WATCH-HOUSE AND
- TOWER OF CHURCH
- R. R. SCHNEBBELIE (DIED ABOUT 1849)]
-
- Plate XXXII
- [Illustration: 77. EAST INDIA HOUSE FROM THE EAST
- T. MALTON THE YOUNGER (1748-1804)]
-
- Plate XXXIII
-
- [Illustration: 78. A WATER PAGEANT ON THE THAMES
- SCHOOL OF SAMUEL SCOTT]
-
- Plate XXXIV
-
- [Illustration: 81. WESTMINSTER BRIDGE AND WESTMINSTER ABBEY
- FROM THE RIVER
- SAMUEL SCOTT (ABOUT 1710-1772)]
-
- Plate XXXV
-
- [Illustration: 82. SIR RICHARD STEELE’S COTTAGE, HAMPSTEAD
- J. CONSTABLE, R.A., 1832 (1776-1837)]
-
- Plate XXXVI
-
- [Illustration: 87. PARADE AND WHITEHALL FROM ST. JAMES’S PARK
- S. SCOTT (_c._ 1710-1772)]
-
- Plate XXXVII
-
- [Illustration: 88. WHITEHALL FROM THE NORTH
- S. SCOTT (_c._ 1710-1772)]
-
- Plate XXXVIII
-
- [Illustration: 91. WESTMINSTER FROM BELOW YORK WATER-GATE
- THOMAS WIJCK (ABOUT 1616-1677)]
-
- Plate XXXIX
-
- [Illustration: 92. WESTMINSTER FROM LAMBETH
- S. SCOTT (?) (_c._ 1710-1772)]
-
- Plate XL
-
- [Illustration: 93. THE OLD STOCKS’ MARKET
- JOSEF VAN AKEN (1709-1749)]
-
- Plate XLI
-
- [Illustration: 94. RIVER VIEW FROM GARDEN OF OLD SOMERSET HOUSE
- SAMUEL SCOTT (ABOUT 1710-1772)]
-
- Plate XLII
-
- [Illustration: 95. OLD WESTMINSTER BRIDGE
- S. SCOTT (_c._ 1710-1772)]
-
- Plate XLIII
-
- [Illustration: 96. WHITEHALL FROM ST. JAMES’S PARK
- H. DANCKERTS (_c._ 1630-1678)]
-
- Plate XLIV
-
- [Illustration: 100_b_. ELY PLACE, HOLBORN
- J. CARTER, 1776 (1748-1817)]
-
- Plate XLV
-
- [Illustration: 104. RANELAGH
- HAS BEEN ASCRIBED TO HOGARTH; PERHAPS BY F. HAYMAN (1708-1776)]
-
- Plate XLVI
-
- [Illustration: 107. OLD LONDON BRIDGE AND NEW LONDON BRIDGE
- FROM SOUTHWARK
- G. B. MOORE, 1830 (1806-1875)]
-
- Plate XLVII
-
- [Illustration: 111. ST. PAUL’S CATHEDRAL FROM ST.
- MARTIN’S-LE-GRAND
- THOMAS GIRTIN (1773-1802)]
-
- PLATE XLVIII
-
- [Illustration: 112. OLD WESTMINSTER
- D. COX (1783-1859)]
-
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-<p style='display:block; margin-top:1em; margin-bottom:0; margin-left:2em; text-indent:-2em'>Title: Catalogue of a collection of early drawings and pictures of London</p>
-<p style='display:block; margin-left:2em; text-indent:0; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:1em;'>With some contemporary furniture</p>
-<p style='display:block; margin-top:1em; margin-bottom:0; margin-left:2em; text-indent:-2em'>Author: Burlington Fine Arts Club</p>
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-<div style='margin-top:2em; margin-bottom:4em'>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CATALOGUE OF A COLLECTION OF EARLY DRAWINGS AND PICTURES OF LONDON ***</div>
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-<div class="tnbox">
-<p class="center">
-<b>Transcriber’s Note:</b>
-</p>
-<p>
- Inconsistent hyphenation and spelling in the original document have
- been preserved. Obvious typographical errors have been corrected.
-</p>
-
-<ul>
-<li>Plate XLI (No.94) is attributed to Canaletto in the Index and to
- Samuel Scott in the text and caption.</li>
-<li>Plate XLII (No. 95) is attributed to Samuel Scott in the text and caption,
- and to Nattes in the Index.</li>
-<li>“established 27 Charles II” is a possible misprint.</li>
-<li>“notoriety as forger” should possibly be “notoriety as a forger”.</li>
-<li>Trevithic and Trevithick appear to refer to the same person.</li>
-<li>“Albany” is possibly italicized in error.</li>
-<li>Hendrik and Hendrick (Danckerts) appear to be alternate spellings of
- the same name.</li>
-</ul>
-
-</div>
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<p class="tp b20 post"> Burlington Fine Arts Club</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter iw004">
- <img src="images/i-001b.png" width="112" height="33" alt="" /></div>
-
-<h1 class="tp spaced">CATALOGUE OF A COLLECTION<br />
-
-<span class="sm">OF</span><br />
-
-EARLY DRAWINGS AND<br />
-PICTURES OF<br />
-LONDON<br />
-
-<span class="medsm">WITH SOME CONTEMPORARY FURNITURE</span></h1>
-
-<div class="figcenter iw006">
- <img src="images/i-001.png" width="142" height="161" alt="" /></div>
-
-<p class="center">LONDON<br />
-
-PRIVATELY PRINTED FOR THE BURLINGTON FINE ARTS CLUB<br />
-
-1920
-</p>
-</div>
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<p class="center">LONDON: PRINTED AT THE CHISWICK PRESS<br />
-TOOKS COURT, CHANCERY LANE</p>
-</div>
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<h2>
-COMMITTEE FOR THIS EXHIBITION
-</h2>
-
-<div class="figcenter iw004">
- <img src="images/i-003a.png" width="85" height="31" alt="" /></div>
-
-<div class="list-container">
-<ul class="ctrlist">
-<li>OLIVER BRACKETT, ESQ.</li>
-<li>MAJOR SIR EDWARD COATES, BART., M.P.</li>
-<li>CAMPBELL DODGSON, ESQ., C.B.E.</li>
-<li>SIR WILLIAM LAWRENCE, BART.</li>
-<li>PHILIP NORMAN, ESQ., LL.D.</li>
-<li>EMERY WALKER, ESQ., F.S.A.</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-<div class="figcenter iw004">
- <img src="images/i-003b.png" width="140" height="94" alt="" /></div>
-</div>
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<h2>
-LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
-</h2>
-
-<div class="figcenter iw004">
- <img src="images/i-005b.png" width="85" height="36" alt="" /></div>
-
-<div class="list-container">
-<ul class="ctrlist">
-<li>HIS MAJESTY THE KING.</li>
-<li><span class="smcap">Colin Agnew, Esq.</span></li>
-<li class="outdent">*<span class="smcap">The Lord Aldenham.</span></li>
-<li class="outdent">*<span class="smcap">A. Acland Allen, Esq.</span>, M.P.</li>
-<li><span class="smcap">Herbert Allen, Esq.</span></li>
-<li><span class="smcap">The Governor of the Bank of England.</span></li>
-<li><span class="smcap">The Earl of Berkeley.</span></li>
-<li><span class="smcap">The Committee of the City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery.</span></li>
-<li class="outdent">*<span class="smcap">The Earl Brownlow</span>, P.C.</li>
-<li><span class="smcap">The Worshipful Company of Carpenters.</span></li>
-<li><span class="smcap">The Master of the Charterhouse.</span></li>
-<li><span class="smcap">Messrs. Christie, Manson, and Woods.</span></li>
-<li><span class="smcap">The Worshipful Company of Clothworkers.</span></li>
-<li><span class="smcap">Major Sir Edward Coates, Bt.</span>, M.P.</li>
-<li class="outdent">*<span class="smcap">E. H. Coles, Esq.</span></li>
-<li><span class="smcap">The Worshipful Company of Fishmongers.</span></li>
-<li><span class="smcap">The Committee of the Foundling Hospital.</span></li>
-<li class="outdent">*<span class="smcap">The Rev. Lewis Gilbertson.</span></li>
-<li class="outdent">*<span class="smcap">Thomas Girtin, Esq.</span></li>
-<li class="outdent">*<span class="smcap">E. C. Grenfell, Esq.</span></li>
-<li><span class="smcap">The Worshipful Company of Haberdashers.</span></li>
-<li><span class="smcap">J. P. Heseltine, Esq.</span></li>
-<li><span class="smcap">R. K. Hodgson, Esq.</span></li>
-<li class="outdent">*<span class="smcap">C. H. St. John Hornby, Esq.</span></li>
-<li><span class="smcap">Mary, Countess of Ilchester.</span></li>
-<li class="outdent">*<span class="smcap">The Earl of Ilchester.</span></li>
-<li><span class="smcap">The Secretary of State for India.</span></li>
-<li><span class="smcap">The Committee of the Borough of Leicester Museum and Art Gallery.</span></li>
-<li class="outdent">*<span class="smcap">H. C. Levis, Esq.</span></li>
-<li class="outdent">*<span class="smcap">R. W. Lloyd, Esq.</span></li>
-<li><span class="smcap">The Hon. Lady Lyttelton.</span></li>
-<li><span class="smcap">The Worshipful Company of Merchant Taylors.</span></li>
-<li class="outdent">*<span class="smcap">Philip Norman, Esq.</span>, LL.D.</li>
-<li class="outdent">*<span class="smcap">Henry Oppenheimer, Esq.</span></li>
-<li><span class="smcap">Sir Walter Prideaux.</span></li>
-<li><span class="smcap">The Treasurer and Almoners of St. Bartholomew’s Hospital.</span></li>
-<li class="outdent">*<span class="smcap">The Marquess of Sligo.</span></li>
-<li class="outdent">*<span class="smcap">A. Murray Smith, Esq.</span></li>
-<li><span class="smcap">Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson, and Hodge.</span></li>
-<li><span class="smcap">The Earl Spencer</span>, K.G., G.C.V.O.</li>
-<li><span class="smcap">The Worshipful Company of Stationers.</span></li>
-<li><span class="smcap">The Worshipful Company of Watermen and Lightermen.</span></li>
-<li class="outdent">*<span class="smcap">F. A. White, Esq.</span></li>
-<li><span class="smcap">Sir Harry Wilson</span>, K.C.M.G.</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-
-<p class="center">
-* <i>Contributors whose names are marked thus are Members of the Club.</i>
-</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter iw006">
- <img src="images/i-006.png" width="140" height="101" alt="" /></div>
-</div>
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<h2>
-LIST OF PLATES
-</h2>
-
-<div class="figcenter iw004">
- <img src="images/i-007b.png" width="65" height="37" alt="" /></div>
-
-<table>
- <tr>
- <td class="plate">I.</td>
- <td class="tdh"><span class="smcap"><a href="#Plate_1">Old London Bridge.</a></span></td>
- <td class="tdr"><i>G. Yates.</i></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td></td>
- <td><span class="smcap">No. 1.</span></td>
- <td class="tdr">Lent by Mr. T. Girtin.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="plate">II.</td>
- <td class="tdh"> <span class="smcap"><a href="#Plate_2">Bolingbroke House, Battersea.</a></span></td>
- <td class="tdr"><i>Artist Unknown.</i></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td></td>
- <td><span class="smcap">No. 3.</span></td>
- <td class="tdr">Lent by Mr. P. Norman.</td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td class="plate">III.</td>
- <td class="tdh"><span class="smcap"><a href="#Plate_3">Old Westminster Bridge.</a></span></td>
- <td class="tdr"><i>Canaletto.</i></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td></td>
- <td><span class="smcap">No. 4.</span></td>
- <td class="tdr">Lent by H.M. the King.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="plate">IV.</td>
- <td class="tdh"><span class="smcap"><a href="#Plate_4">View down River from Westminster.</a></span></td>
- <td class="tdr"><i>W. Hollar.</i></td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td></td>
- <td><span class="smcap">No. 6.</span></td>
- <td class="tdr">Lent by H.M. the King.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="plate">V.</td>
- <td class="tdh"><span class="smcap"><a href="#Plate_5">Westminster Bridge and Abbey.</a></span></td>
- <td class="tdr"><i>Canaletto.</i></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td></td>
- <td><span class="smcap">No. 8.</span></td>
- <td class="tdr">Lent by H.M. the King.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="plate">VI.</td>
- <td class="tdh"><span class="smcap"><a href="#Plate_6">Westminster Abbey, South View from River.</a></span></td>
- <td class="tdr"><i>W. Hollar.</i></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td></td>
- <td><span class="smcap">No. 9.</span></td>
- <td class="tdr">Lent by Mr. J. P. Heseltine.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="plate">VII.</td>
- <td class="tdh"><span class="smcap"><a href="#Plate_7">View up River to Westminster.</a></span></td>
- <td class="tdr"><i>Canaletto.</i></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td></td>
- <td><span class="smcap">No. 11.</span></td>
- <td class="tdr">Lent by Mr. J. P. Heseltine.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="plate">VIII.</td>
- <td class="tdh"><span class="smcap"><a href="#Plate_8">Old Westminster Bridge.</a></span></td>
- <td class="tdr"><i>Canaletto.</i></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td></td>
- <td><span class="smcap">No. 12.</span></td>
- <td class="tdr">Lent by H.M. the King.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="plate">IX.</td>
- <td class="tdh"><span class="smcap"><a href="#Plate_9">Piazza, Covent Garden.</a></span></td>
- <td class="tdr"><i>T. Sandby, R.A.</i></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td></td>
- <td><span class="smcap">No. 14.</span></td>
- <td class="tdr">Lent by H.M. the King.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="plate">X.</td>
- <td class="tdh"><span class="smcap"><a href="#Plate_10">Old Somerset House and Garden.</a></span></td>
- <td class="tdr"><i>T. Sandby, R.A.</i></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td></td>
- <td><span class="smcap">No. 16.</span></td>
- <td class="tdr">Lent by H.M. the King.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="plate">XI.</td>
- <td class="tdh"><span class="smcap"><a href="#Plate_11">Old London Bridge from Billingsgate.</a></span></td>
- <td class="tdr"><i>G. Yates.</i></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td></td>
- <td><span class="smcap">No. 19.</span></td>
- <td class="tdr">Lent by Sir E. Coates.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="plate">XII.</td>
- <td class="tdh"><span class="smcap"><a href="#Plate_12">Camp near Serpentine, Hyde park, 1780.</a></span></td>
- <td class="tdr"><i>P. Sandby, R.A.</i></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td></td>
- <td><span class="smcap">No. 23.</span></td>
- <td class="tdr">Lent by H.M. the King.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="plate">XIII.</td>
- <td class="tdh"><span class="smcap"><a href="#Plate_13">Interior of Second Royal Exchange.</a></span></td>
- <td class="tdr"><i>Artist Unknown.</i></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td></td>
- <td><span class="smcap">No. 31.</span></td>
- <td class="tdr">Lent by Sir E. Coates.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="plate">XIV.</td>
- <td class="tdh"><span class="smcap"><a href="#Plate_14">Church of St. Peter Le Poor, Old Broad Street.</a></span></td>
- <td class="tdr"><i>Artist Unknown.</i></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td></td>
- <td><span class="smcap">No. 33.</span></td>
- <td class="tdr">Lent by Sir E. Coates.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="plate">XV.</td>
- <td class="tdh"><span class="smcap"><a href="#Plate_15">View from the Churchyard of St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields.</a></span></td>
- <td class="tdr"><i>W. Hunt.</i></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td></td>
- <td><span class="smcap">No. 34.</span></td>
- <td class="tdr">Lent by Mr. T. Girtin.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="plate">XVI.</td>
- <td class="tdh"><span class="smcap"><a href="#Plate_16">Encampment in the Grounds of Montague House.</a></span></td>
- <td class="tdr"><i>S. H. Grimm.</i></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td></td>
- <td><span class="smcap">No. 35.</span></td>
- <td class="tdr">Lent by H.M. the King.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="plate">XVII.</td>
- <td class="tdh"><span class="smcap"><a href="#Plate_17">Chantrey Chapel of Henry V, Westminster Abbey.</a></span></td>
- <td class="tdr"><i>John Carter.</i></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td></td>
- <td><span class="smcap">No. 37.</span></td>
- <td class="tdr">Lent by Sir E. Coates.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="plate">XVIII.</td>
- <td class="tdh"><span class="smcap"><a href="#Plate_18">Abbot Islip’s Chapel, Westminster Abbey.</a></span></td>
- <td class="tdr"><i>J. M. W. Turner, R.A.</i></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td></td>
- <td><span class="smcap">No. 38.</span></td>
- <td class="tdr">Lent by Mr. R. W. Lloyd.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="plate">XIX.</td>
- <td class="tdh"><span class="smcap"><a href="#Plate_19">Hall of Brotherhood of Holy Trinity, Aldersgate.</a></span></td>
- <td class="tdr"><i>W. Capon.</i></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td></td>
- <td><span class="smcap">No. 41.</span></td>
- <td class="tdr">Lent by Sir E. Coates.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="plate">XX.</td>
- <td class="tdh"><span class="smcap"><a href="#Plate_20">Site of Euston Square, 1809.</a></span></td>
- <td class="tdr"><i>T. Rowlandson.</i></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td></td>
- <td><span class="smcap">No. 45.</span></td>
- <td class="tdr">Lent by Mr. H. C. Levis.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="plate">XXI.</td>
- <td class="tdh"><span class="smcap"><a href="#Plate_21">Old Cheese-Cake House, Hyde Park, 1797.</a></span></td>
- <td class="tdr"><i>Artist Unknown.</i></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td></td>
- <td><span class="smcap">No. 47.</span></td>
- <td class="tdr">Lent by H.M. the King.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="plate">XXII.</td>
- <td class="tdh"><span class="smcap"><a href="#Plate_22">Fishmongers’ Hall, from the River.</a></span></td>
- <td class="tdr"><i>Unknown Artist.</i></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td></td>
- <td><span class="smcap">No. 49.</span></td>
- <td class="tdr">Lent by Sir E. Coates.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="plate">XXIII.</td>
- <td class="tdh"><span class="smcap"><a href="#Plate_23">St. Dunstan’s-in-the-West, Fleet Street.</a></span></td>
- <td class="tdr"><i>T. Malton the Elder.</i></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td></td>
- <td><span class="smcap">No. 59.</span></td>
- <td class="tdr">Lent by Lord Aldenham.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="plate">XXIV.</td>
- <td class="tdh"><span class="smcap"><a href="#Plate_24">Westminster Abbey from Dean’s Yard.</a></span></td>
- <td class="tdr"><i>T. Malton the Elder.</i></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td></td>
- <td><span class="smcap">No. 61.</span></td>
- <td class="tdr">Lent by the City of Birmingham Art Gallery.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="plate">XXV.</td>
- <td class="tdh"><span class="smcap"><a href="#Plate_25">Wapping.</a></span></td>
- <td class="tdr"><i>T. Girtin.</i></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td></td>
- <td><span class="smcap">No. 63.</span></td>
- <td class="tdr">Lent by the Leicester Art Gallery.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="plate">XXVI.</td>
- <td class="tdh"><span class="smcap"><a href="#Plate_26">East India House from the West.</a></span></td>
- <td class="tdr"><i>T. Malton the Younger.</i></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td></td>
- <td><span class="smcap">No. 64.</span></td>
- <td class="tdr">Lent by the Secretary of State for India.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="plate">XXVII.</td>
- <td class="tdh"><span class="smcap"><a href="#Plate_27">Sadler’s Wells.</a></span></td>
- <td class="tdr"><i>R. C. Andrews.</i></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td></td>
- <td><span class="smcap">No. 67.</span></td>
- <td class="tdr">Lent by the Hon. Lady Lyttelton.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="plate">XXVIII.</td>
- <td class="tdh"><span class="smcap"><a href="#Plate_28">Green Park, 1670.</a></span></td>
- <td class="tdr"><i>W. Hogarth.</i></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td></td>
- <td><span class="smcap">No. 68.</span></td>
- <td class="tdr">Lent by the Earl Spencer.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="plate">XXIX.</td>
- <td class="tdh"><span class="smcap"><a href="#Plate_29">St. George’s Hospital.</a></span></td>
- <td class="tdr"><i>R. Wilson, R.A.</i></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td></td>
- <td><span class="smcap">No. 71.</span></td>
- <td class="tdr">Lent by the Foundling Hospital.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="plate">XXX.</td>
- <td class="tdh"><span class="smcap"><a href="#Plate_30">The Charterhouse.</a></span></td>
- <td class="tdr"><i>T. Gainsborough, R.A.</i></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td></td>
- <td><span class="smcap">No. 72.</span></td>
- <td class="tdr">Lent by the Foundling Hospital.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="plate">XXXI.</td>
- <td class="tdh"><span class="smcap"><a href="#Plate_31">Aldgate School and Watch-House and Tower of Church.</a></span></td>
- <td class="tdr"><i>R. B. Schnebbelie.</i></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td></td>
- <td><span class="smcap">No. 73.</span></td>
- <td class="tdr">Lent by Sir E. Coates.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="plate">XXXII.</td>
- <td class="tdh"><span class="smcap"><a href="#Plate_32">East India House from the East.</a></span></td>
- <td class="tdr"><i>T. Malton the Younger.</i></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td></td>
- <td><span class="smcap">No. 77.</span></td>
- <td class="tdr">Lent by the Secretary of State for India.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="plate">XXXIII.</td>
- <td class="tdh"><span class="smcap"><a href="#Plate_33">A Water Pageant on the Thames.</a></span></td>
- <td class="tdr"><i>School of S. Scott.</i></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td></td>
- <td><span class="smcap">No. 78.</span></td>
- <td class="tdr">Lent by the Earl Brownlow.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="plate">XXXIV.</td>
- <td class="tdh"><span class="smcap"><a href="#Plate_34">Westminster Bridge and Westminster Abbey from the River.</a></span></td>
- <td class="tdr"><i>S. Scott.</i></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td></td>
- <td><span class="smcap">No. 81.</span></td>
- <td class="tdr">Lent by the Marquess of Sligo.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="plate">XXXV.</td>
- <td class="tdh"><span class="smcap"><a href="#Plate_35">Sir Richard Steele’s Cottage, Hampstead.</a></span></td>
- <td class="tdr"><i>J. Constable, R.A.</i></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td></td>
- <td><span class="smcap">No. 82.</span></td>
- <td class="tdr">Lent by Mr. R. K. Hodgson.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="plate">XXXVI.</td>
- <td class="tdh"><span class="smcap"><a href="#Plate_36">The Parade and Whitehall from St. James’s Park.</a></span></td>
- <td class="tdr"><i>S. Scott.</i></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td></td>
- <td><span class="smcap">No. 87.</span></td>
- <td class="tdr">Lent by the Marquess of Sligo.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="plate">XXXVII.</td>
- <td class="tdh"><span class="smcap"><a href="#Plate_37">Whitehall from the North.</a></span></td>
- <td class="tdr"><i>S. Scott.</i></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td></td>
- <td><span class="smcap">No. 88.</span></td>
- <td class="tdr">Lent by the Marquess of Sligo.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="plate">XXXVIII.</td>
- <td class="tdh"><span class="smcap"><a href="#Plate_38">Westminster from below York Water-Gate.</a></span></td>
- <td class="tdr"><i>Thomas Wijck.</i></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td></td>
- <td><span class="smcap">No. 91.</span></td>
- <td class="tdr">Lent by Mr. E. C. Grenfell.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="plate">XXXIX.</td>
- <td class="tdh"><span class="smcap"><a href="#Plate_39">Westminster from Lambeth.</a></span></td>
- <td class="tdr"><i>S. Scott.</i></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td></td>
- <td><span class="smcap">No. 92.</span></td>
- <td class="tdr">Lent by Mr. P. Norman.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="plate">XL.</td>
- <td class="tdh"><span class="smcap"><a href="#Plate_40">The Old Stocks Market.</a></span></td>
- <td class="tdr"><i>Josef van Aken.</i></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td></td>
- <td><span class="smcap">No. 93.</span></td>
- <td class="tdr">Lent by the Bank of England.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="plate">XLI.</td>
- <td class="tdh"><span class="smcap"><a href="#Plate_41">River View from Garden of Old Somerset House.</a></span></td>
- <td class="tdr"><i>Canaletto.</i></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td></td>
- <td><span class="smcap">No. 94.</span></td>
- <td class="tdr">Lent by Mr. F. A. White.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="plate">XLII.</td>
- <td class="tdh"><span class="smcap"><a href="#Plate_42">Old Westminster Bridge.</a></span></td>
- <td class="tdr"><i>J. C. Nattes.</i></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td></td>
- <td><span class="smcap">No. 95.</span></td>
- <td class="tdr">Lent by the Rev. L. Gilbertson.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="plate">XLIII.</td>
- <td class="tdh"><span class="smcap"><a href="#Plate_43">Whitehall from St. James’s Park.</a></span></td>
- <td class="tdr"><i>H. Danckerts.</i></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td></td>
- <td><span class="smcap">No. 96.</span></td>
- <td class="tdr">Lent by the Earl of Berkeley.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="plate">XLIV.</td>
- <td class="tdh"><span class="smcap"><a href="#Plate_44">Ely Place, Holborn.</a></span></td>
- <td class="tdr"><i>J. Carter.</i></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td></td>
- <td><span class="smcap">No. 100</span><i>b</i>.</td>
- <td class="tdr">Lent by Sir E. Coates.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="plate">XLV.</td>
- <td class="tdh"><span class="smcap"><a href="#Plate_45">Ranelagh.</a></span></td>
- <td class="tdr"><i>Has been ascribed to Hogarth; perhaps by F. Hayman.</i></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td></td>
- <td><span class="smcap">No. 104.</span></td>
- <td class="tdr">Lent by Mary, Countess of Ilchester.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="plate">XLVI.</td>
- <td class="tdh"><span class="smcap"><a href="#Plate_46">Old London Bridge and New London Bridge from Southwark.</a></span></td>
- <td class="tdr"><i>G. B. Moore.</i></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td></td>
- <td><span class="smcap">No. 107.</span></td>
- <td class="tdr">Lent by Sir E. Coates.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="plate">XLVII.</td>
- <td class="tdh"><span class="smcap"><a href="#Plate_47">St. Paul’s Cathedral from St. Martin’s-le-Grand.</a></span></td>
- <td class="tdr"><i>T. Girtin.</i></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td></td>
- <td><span class="smcap">No. 111.</span></td>
- <td class="tdr">Lent by Sir Walter Prideaux.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="plate">XLVIII.</td>
- <td class="tdh"><span class="smcap"><a href="#Plate_48">Old Westminster.</a></span></td>
- <td class="tdr"><i>D. Cox.</i></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td></td>
- <td><span class="smcap">No. 112.</span></td>
- <td class="tdr">Lent by the Birmingham Art Gallery.</td>
- </tr>
-</table>
-
-<div class="figcenter iw006">
- <img src="images/i-010.png" width="150" height="105" alt="" /></div>
-
-<div class="figcenter iw010">
- <img src="images/i-011.png" width="320" height="79" alt="" /></div>
-</div>
-
-<div class="chapter">
-
-<h2>
-PREFACE
-</h2>
-
-<div class="figcenter iw006">
- <img src="images/i-011b.png" width="85" height="22" alt="" /></div>
-
-
-<div>
-<img class="drop-cap" src="images/i-011a.png" width="343" height="364" alt="A" /></div>
-
-<p class="drop-cap">
-<span class="smcap larger">At</span>
-this great time in the nation’s history, when changes
-moral and material are following each other with such
-speed that we “know not what a day may bring forth,”
-it seems all the more incumbent on us while we live in
-the present not to forget the past. Accordingly, the
-Committee felt that pictures and drawings of the London of our ancestors
-would have exceptional interest, and the present exhibition is the result.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-The space at our command being limited, we can only show a tithe
-of the material still in existence, but, through the kindness of owners,
-many fine works are on our walls, with others which, although as
-regards craftsmanship they have only average merit, are valuable as
-showing noteworthy scenes and buildings of a former day. Among the
-number that have not been exhibited before we would mention the
-drawings from Windsor which His Majesty the King has been graciously
-pleased to lend, also those belonging to Sir Edward Coates—but a
-trifling instalment of his unique collection.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-By way of preface a few words on old London views may not be
-thought superfluous. In manuscripts and early printed books pictures or
-illustrations which purported to represent London were now and then
-produced, but the artists did not attempt to imitate nature with precision,
-their feeling for decorative effect being paramount. Indeed, in R. Pynson’s
-<span class='pagenum'><a id='Page_12' href='#Page_12'>12</a></span>
-edition of the “Cronycle of Englonde” (1510), what is probably the
-earliest engraved view which has any claim to represent London, shows no
-pretence of accuracy. With an effort of faith we may believe that we are
-looking at representations of old St. Paul’s, the Tower, London Bridge,
-Ludgate, and the church of the Black Friars, but the design is symbolic
-rather than imitative.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-Illuminations in manuscripts of the previous century in one or two
-instances give us clearer topographical hints. A volume of the English
-poems of Charles, Duke of Orleans, among the royal manuscripts at the
-British Museum, shows the duke, who was captured at the battle of
-Agincourt, as a prisoner in the Tower of London, where he was kept for
-many years. The river side of the keep has been opened, and he appears
-seated within. Portions of the Tower and old London Bridge with its
-chapel are well portrayed, while other buildings, although incorrectly
-placed, add a little to our knowledge. Another of the royal manuscripts
-in the British Museum shows Chaucer’s Canterbury pilgrims starting on
-their journey, with London in the background, the most interesting
-feature of this topographically being the old city wall, with its bastions
-at regular intervals. Something more may be learnt from the engraving
-(after a picture at Cowdray, destroyed by fire long ago) of the procession
-of Edward VI through London in 1547. The artist, however, is still
-not imitating nature directly, but introduces conventional renderings of
-the more important buildings with which he was familiar, without
-troubling himself much about their relative positions.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-Two fine representations of Tudor London deserve special mention.
-The first of them as regards time is a view of London, not from Suffolk
-House as is generally supposed, but from the tower of the church of
-St. George the Martyr, Southwark, with Suffolk House, or part of it, in
-the foreground. It is a pen drawing, ten feet long or more, and is now
-in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. Although the various important
-buildings are brought somewhat together in order to include them all,
-<span class='pagenum'><a id='Page_13' href='#Page_13'>13</a></span>
-this view has a look of nature, the style also being free and skilful. The
-artist is Anthonie Van den Wyngaerde, now generally held to have been
-a Fleming in the train of Philip II. The second Tudor view, which is at
-Hatfield House and belongs to the Marquess of Salisbury, is an oil
-picture, also by a Flemish artist, Joris Hoefnagel. It was rather poorly
-described by George Corner in a paper read before members of the
-Surrey Archaeological Society in 1858, and was in the Tudor Exhibition
-at the New Gallery in 1890, being then called Horsleydown Fair; but in
-all probability it represents a marriage fête by the old church of St. Mary
-Magdalen, Bermondsey, which has since been rebuilt excepting the lower
-part of the mediaeval tower. The ground between the church and the river
-is portrayed with much detail, and the scene is full of life and incident.
-The Tower of London appears in the distance. Hoefnagel, born at
-Antwerp, was responsible for many beautiful paintings, mostly of the
-miniature kind, and drew plans for Braun and Hogenberg’s “Civitates
-Orbis Terrarum,” published at Cologne in 1572, among them that representing
-London. On this perhaps the plan ascribed to Agas was based;
-the alternative being that they both owe their origin in some degree to
-a still earlier plan, all trace of which has disappeared.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-In the seventeenth century pictures of London subjects begin to be
-fairly plentiful. Among early ones the curious diptych of old St. Paul’s,
-dating from the time of James I and belonging to the Society of
-Antiquaries, may be mentioned. Although artless and entirely lacking in
-perspective, it contains details which are not to be found elsewhere,
-and there is a quaint London view at the back. Later in that century a
-series of accurate etchings by Hollar throw much light on the London
-of his day. About the same time also a few large and realistic pictures of
-London were painted, of which we are able to show two or three examples.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-Soon after 1720 the charm of London scenes came to be more
-generally recognized, and from then onwards her river, her parks, her
-streets and public buildings, have been depicted times innumerable, and
-<span class='pagenum'><a id='Page_14' href='#Page_14'>14</a></span>
-by some of our most famous artists. Until the latter part of the eighteenth
-century oil pictures of scenes on the Thames were plentiful, Samuel
-Scott, who was also a marine painter, setting the example. He was a
-friend of Hogarth, and together they illustrated the account of that
-frolicsome jaunt to the Isle of Sheppey and back in 1732, which is now
-in the British Museum. Scott, who was latterly much influenced by
-Canaletto, founded more or less of a school, some of the pictures usually
-ascribed to him being perhaps by his followers. Canaletto himself paid
-us a prolonged visit, and several of his fine London drawings are on our
-walls. There is also evidence that he designed two oil pictures here
-exhibited (Nos. 69 and 94), which were previously attributed to Scott.
-As time went on water-colours by the Sandbys and others gradually
-came into vogue. Many years before the date to which this exhibition is
-confined, our predecessors began to take an interest not only in river
-scenes and great public buildings, but in humbler subjects, such as old
-houses, and picturesque nooks and corners threatened with destruction.
-Pennant’s “London,” of which there are several splendidly extra illustrated
-copies, helped to encourage these varied tastes, so did Wilkinson’s
-“Londina Illustrata,” to name only one later publication, and competent
-draughtsmen and engravers got something like permanent employment
-on work of this kind.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-We will now say a few words about the great private collections of
-London topographical prints, drawings, maps and plans, formed many
-years ago, chiefly of material which comes within the period to which we
-are limited. Three of these collections are specially famous, and they were
-brought together by busy men who died within living memory. These
-were Frederick Crace, to whom we owe the many portfolios catalogued
-under his name in the Print Room of the British Museum; James Holbert
-Wilson, whose collection has unfortunately been dispersed, and John
-Edmund Gardner. It is his amazing collection, far larger than all the
-rest put together, which has been saved for our interest and instruction
-<span class='pagenum'><a id='Page_15' href='#Page_15'>15</a></span>
-by Sir Edward Coates, and of which a few examples are here shown.
-The late Mr. Gardner who formed it, began when little more than a
-boy, by the purchase for five guineas of an extra illustrated Pennant, and
-he continued buying steadily throughout a long life. He passed away
-December 29th, 1899, at the ripe age of eighty-two, having occupied
-himself with his beloved portfolios on that very day. Among his more
-important purchases were almost all the original drawings, about two
-hundred in number, made for the “Londina Illustrata,” and twenty-eight
-folio volumes of sketches by John Carter. Not very many years ago
-the late J. P. Emslie, who, with C. J. Richardson and others, carried on
-the work of previous generations, told the present writer that he had
-just completed his thousandth drawing for the Gardner collection.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-To conclude. It is now somewhat the habit to speak slightingly of
-topographical pictures and drawings, as if there were something unworthy
-in copying with correctness the appearance of an interesting
-building or an attractive river or street scene. Such work is supposed
-to be outside the region of art, as giving no play to the imagination.
-But surely “the originality of a subject is in its treatment.” A man
-without a touch of the true spirit may paint the most ideal scene and
-leave us cold. On the other hand, while many artists of no exceptional
-talent, by their honest efforts have left topographical records for which
-we are thankful, almost all our great landscape painters have deigned
-now and then to depict London, and for those in sympathy with them
-they still give something of the thrill of pleasure which they themselves
-felt when they put their whole souls into their work.
-</p>
-
-<p class="signature">
-PHILIP NORMAN.
-</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter iw004">
- <img src="images/i-013.png" width="85" height="45" alt="" /></div>
-
-<span class='pagenum'><a id='Page_16' href='#Page_16'></a></span>
-<span class='pagenum'><a id='Page_17' href='#Page_17'>17</a></span>
-</div>
-
-<div class="chapter">
-
-<div class="figcenter iw010">
- <img src="images/i-017.png" width="320" height="80" alt="" /></div>
-
-<h2>
-CATALOGUE
-</h2>
-
-<div class="figcenter iw004">
- <img src="images/i-017b.png" width="85" height="35" alt="" /></div>
-
-<p class="phanging">
-<i>The numbering of the Drawings and Pictures begins on the Entrance Door, and is
-continued to the left.</i>
-</p>
-
-<p class="phanging">
-<i>The measurements are in inches (the width preceding the height) and do not include
-the frame or mount.</i>
-</p>
-
-<p class="phanging">
-<i>The Furniture, etc., is described after the Pictures.</i>
-</p>
-
-<p class="phanging">
-<i>The Committee accept no responsibility for the accuracy of the attributions in the
-Catalogue.</i>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">1</span> <a id="Note_1"></a><a href="#Plate_1">OLD LONDON BRIDGE.</a>
-<span class="smcap flright">Plate I.</span>
-</p>
-<p class="cat">
-Watercolour. 17 by 10 in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-The bridge shortly before its removal. From a point on the
-Surrey side of the river, nearly opposite to old Fishmongers’ Hall.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-G. Yates, watercolour painter, worked in London on topographical
-subjects about 1825-37; in the Crace catalogue he is called
-Major Yates.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-By <i>G. Yates</i>, 1826.
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by Mr. T. Girtin.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">2</span><a id="Note_2"></a> AUSTIN FRIARS CHURCH FROM THE NORTH-WEST.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Watercolour. 7¾ by 7½ in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-The priory of the Augustine Friars in London was founded
-<span class="smcap">a.d.</span> 1253, and the church was rebuilt about a century afterwards. In
-1550 the nave was made over to the Dutch community in London,
-and it has been in their hands ever since. The choir and steeple were
-destroyed by the then Marquess of Winchester at the beginning of
-<span class='pagenum'><a id='Page_18' href='#Page_18'>18</a></span>
-the seventeenth century. In 1862 what remained of the church was
-very much injured by fire, the roof and all the fittings being burnt.
-It was “restored” at a cost of about £12,000.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-The interest of this drawing is due to the fact that it shows the
-church, with its decorated tracery and staircase turret, before the
-disastrous fire.
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by Sir E. Coates.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">3</span> <a id="Note_3"></a><a href="#Plate_2">BOLINGBROKE HOUSE, BATTERSEA.</a>
-<span class="flright smcap">Plate II.</span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Watercolour. 7 by 4¾ in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-The St. John family became Lords of the Manor of Battersea in the
-early part of the seventeenth century. Henry, Viscount Bolingbroke,
-retired to the manor-house when nearing the end of his career, and
-died there in 1751. In 1763 the manor was sold to Lord Spencer,
-and much of the house is said to have been pulled down not long
-afterwards. The remainder was enclosed in ground attached to a
-mill built about 1794, and it stands in the premises of the existing
-flour mill near the parish church, but is now dilapidated.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-This old drawing represents the house much as it was a few
-years ago. It contained a panelled room, a good staircase, and
-remains of a seventeenth-century plaster ceiling still there in 1920.
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by Mr. P. Norman.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">4</span> <a id="Note_4"></a><a href="#Plate_3">OLD WESTMINSTER BRIDGE.</a>
-<span class="flright smcap">Plate III.</span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Wash and pen drawing. 19 by 9 in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-View of the bridge and of Westminster from mid-stream.
-The western towers of Westminster Abbey, as shown, were completed
-in 1739. Among prominent buildings are Westminster Hall, St.
-Stephen’s Chapel, and the Church of St. John the Evangelist with
-its four queer towers finished in 1728. In the distance is Lambeth
-Palace. Old Westminster Bridge, designed by the Swiss architect
-C. Labelye, was begun in 1738-9 and opened 18 November 1750.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Antonio Canale, the Venetian painter, usually called Canaletto,
-visited England in 1746, and remained about two years. During that
-time he produced many pictures and drawings, chiefly of London
-scenes. An inscription on the back of a picture of the Rotunda at
-Ranelagh (Nat. Gal. Cat. 1906, No. 1429) has been thought to
-prove that he was here in 1754.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-By <span class="smcap">Canaletto</span>, <i>c.</i> 1747 (1697-1768).
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by H.M. the King.</i></span>
-<span class='pagenum'><a id='Page_19' href='#Page_19'>19</a></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">5</span><a id="Note_5"></a> VIEW DOWN RIVER FROM GARDEN OF OLD SOMERSET
-HOUSE.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Wash and pen drawing. 19 by 7¾ in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-By <span class="smcap">Canaletto</span>, <i>c.</i> 1747 (1697-1768).
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by H.M. the King.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">6</span> <a id="Note_6"></a><a href="#Plate_4">VIEW DOWN RIVER FROM WESTMINSTER.</a> <span class="smcap flright">Plate IV.</span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Pen drawing. 15½ by 5¼ in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Rare example of Hollar’s pen-work, unfinished. The point of
-view is about that of the “King’s Bridge,” Westminster. In the
-distance old St. Paul’s is faintly pencilled. Signature on a plank to
-the left.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Wenceslaus Hollar, born at Prague, was brought to England
-by the Earl of Arundel in 1637, and worked under his patronage for
-years. In the Civil War he served under the Marquess of Winchester,
-and was taken prisoner at Basing House, but escaped to Antwerp.
-He afterwards returned, was appointed designer to the King, and
-spent the rest of his life here with an interval when he was sent by
-Charles II to Tangiers. A most industrious artist, we owe to him
-many fine etchings of London; died in poverty.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-By <span class="smcap">W. Hollar</span> (1607-1677).
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by H.M. the King.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">7</span><a id="Note_7"></a> VIEW UP RIVER FROM GARDEN OF OLD SOMERSET
-HOUSE.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Pen and wash. 19 by 8½ in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Westminster Abbey, Bridge, and Hall are conspicuous, so is
-the Banqueting House, Whitehall.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-By <span class="smcap">Canaletto</span>, <i>c.</i> 1747 (1697-1768).
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by H.M. the King.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">8</span> <a id="Note_8"></a><a href="#Plate_5">WESTMINSTER BRIDGE AND ABBEY.</a> <span class="smcap flright">Plate V.</span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Pen and wash. 19 by 10½ in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-View from Surrey side; a <i>fête</i> of some kind is in progress; the
-river crowded with sailing boats and barges and wherries all proceeding
-up stream. The chief Westminster buildings are delineated.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-By <span class="smcap">Canaletto</span>, <i>c.</i> 1747 (1697-1768).
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by H.M. the King.</i></span>
-<span class='pagenum'><a id='Page_20' href='#Page_20'>20</a></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">9</span> <a id="Note_9"></a><a href="#Plate_6">WESTMINSTER ABBEY, SOUTH VIEW FROM RIVER.</a>
-<span class="smcap flright">Plate VI.</span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Pen and watercolour. 5¼ by 3 in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-A choice drawing delicately tinted, shows Henry VIIth’s Chapel
-and the Chapter-house. The tower to the left of the latter must be
-the King’s Jewel-house. The narrow strip to extreme left, intended
-perhaps to represent part of a turret of Lambeth Palace, is a later
-addition joined on.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-By <span class="smcap">W. Hollar</span> (1607-1677).
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by Mr. J. P. Heseltine.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">10</span><a id="Note_10"></a> VIEW FROM AN ARCHWAY OF WESTMINSTER BRIDGE.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Wash and pen drawing. 19 by 11½ in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Looking down stream, shows the riverside from York Water-tower
-to St. Paul’s.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-By <span class="smcap">Canaletto</span>, <i>c.</i> 1747 (1697-1768).
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by H.M. the King.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">11</span> <a id="Note_11"></a><a href="#Plate_7">VIEW UP RIVER TO WESTMINSTER.</a>
-<span class="smcap flright">Plate VII.</span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Wash and pen drawing. 28¼ by 15¼ in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-On spectator’s right the first important object is York Water-gate
-still standing at the end of Buckingham Street, Strand, probably
-designed by Inigo Jones in 1626, and executed by Nicholas Stone.
-(The design is claimed for the latter in his Account Book.) Behind
-it is the house where Samuel Pepys lived with Hewer. No. 14
-Buckingham Street is on the site. Next is York Water-tower, a
-slender wooden building about seventy feet high, part of the waterworks
-established 27 Charles II to supply the West End with Thames
-water. They were burnt down and re-erected in 1690. Westminster
-Abbey and Westminster Hall are prominent. Westminster Bridge is
-unfinished. Lambeth Palace appears in the distance to spectator’s
-left. A drawing apparently copied from this is in the print room of
-the British Museum.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-By <span class="smcap">Canaletto</span>, <i>c.</i> 1746 (1697-1768).
-
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by Mr. J. P. Heseltine.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">12</span> <a id="Note_12"></a><a href="#Plate_8">OLD WESTMINSTER BRIDGE.</a>
-<span class="smcap flright">Plate VIII.</span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Wash and pen drawing. 19 by 11½ in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-This view appears to be taken from the Westminster side. According
-to Labelye’s “Description,” published in 1751, the bridge was
-<span class='pagenum'><a id='Page_21' href='#Page_21'>21</a></span>
-almost finished in the spring of 1747, but soon afterwards a pier
-settled badly. The two adjoining arches were thus wrecked and had
-to be supported by wooden framework, the spandrels, balustrades,
-etc., being removed. The effects of this accident are here shown;
-they delayed the opening for years.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-By <span class="smcap">Canaletto</span>, 1747 (1697-1768).
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by H.M. the King.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">13</span><a id="Note_13"></a> LAMBETH PALACE GATE-HOUSE, AND PARISH CHURCH.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Watercolour. 7¼ by 5¼ in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-The Palace cannot be seen; in the distance is Westminster Bridge.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-The Gate-house, of red brick, with stone archway and quoins,
-was built in the time of Archbishop Morton who died in 1500. The
-fifteenth-century church of St. Mary, Lambeth, after being often
-altered and repaired, was almost entirely rebuilt in 1850-52.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-John Varley, born in 1778, exhibited at the Royal Academy and
-in 1804 became a foundation member of the Old Watercolour Society.
-Many of his earlier subjects are taken from the banks of the Thames.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-By <span class="smcap">J. Varley</span> (1778-1842).
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by Mr. J. P. Heseltine.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">14</span> <a id="Note_14"></a><a href="#Plate_9">PIAZZA, COVENT GARDEN.</a> <span class="smcap flright">Plate IX.</span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Watercolour. 12 by 10¾ in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-A piece of the Piazza designed by Inigo Jones is here shown.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-The letters “PS” are stamped on the lower left-hand corner
-of the drawing, a proof that it was in the collection of Paul Sandby,
-but according to the pencil note beneath it was by Thomas Sandby.
-Each brother drew subjects of this character. They were accomplished
-artists, and foundation members of the Royal Academy. Thomas
-was the first R.A. Professor of Architecture. Paul is believed to
-have been the first in this country who practised the art of aquatint.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-By <span class="smcap">T. Sandby</span>, R.A. (1721-1798).
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by H.M. the King.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">15</span><a id="Note_15"></a> CHURCH OF ST. DUNSTAN-IN-THE-EAST DURING
-RECONSTRUCTION.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Pen and wash drawing. 16½ by 17½ in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-After the Great Fire Wren rebuilt the church in his usual style
-excepting the tower, which is a bold attempt at Gothic with a spire
-<span class='pagenum'><a id='Page_22' href='#Page_22'>22</a></span>
-on four flying buttresses. In 1817, the body of the church having
-become dilapidated, it was resolved to take it down and rebuild it to
-match the tower. The first stone of the new structure was laid on
-26 November of that year. If the date under this drawing be correct,
-the work must have proceeded slowly. The roof is off, but Wren’s
-renaissance arches still remain.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Date 1819.
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by Sir E. Coates.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">16</span> <a id="Note_16"></a><a href="#Plate_10">OLD SOMERSET HOUSE AND GARDEN.</a>
-<span class="smcap flright">Plate X.</span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Watercolour. 29½ by 20¼ in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Old Somerset House was built by the Protector, brother of Jane
-Seymour and maternal uncle of Edward VI, being begun soon after
-the death of Henry VIII. During a portion of Mary’s reign it was
-assigned to her sister Elizabeth. James I granted it to his Queen,
-Anne of Denmark. Charles handed it over to his Queen, Henrietta
-Maria, and caused a chapel for Roman Catholics to be added to the
-building. This was designed by Inigo Jones and consecrated in
-1635, and he did other work there. A picture at Dulwich, engraved
-for Wilkinson’s “Londina Illustrata,” shows it before his chapel and
-alterations destroyed the uniform character of the building. It can
-hardly be from nature, as the artist was Cornelis Bol, who also
-portrayed the Great Fire. The present view must have been painted
-shortly before its demolition in 1775. An arcaded portion designed
-by Inigo Jones, stands out prominently.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-By <span class="smcap">T. Sandby</span>, R.A. (1721-1798).
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by H.M. the King.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">17</span><a id="Note_17"></a> OLD MANSION IN LEADENHALL STREET.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Watercolour. 12½ by 18 in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-To spectator’s right, above nearer buildings, is the spire of
-St. Peter’s Cornhill, and behind it the tower of St. Michael’s,
-Cornhill.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-If, as noted in pencil, this rather ornate structure was pulled down
-“for the East India House,” it must have been after the rebuilding
-of the latter from Jupp’s design, for it is shown in the large watercolour
-by T. Malton (<a href="#Note_77">No. 77</a>) as immediately west of that building.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-About 1800
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by Sir E. Coates.</i></span>
-<span class='pagenum'><a id='Page_23' href='#Page_23'>23</a></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">18</span><a id="Note_18"></a> WESTMINSTER FROM THE GARDEN OF OLD SOMERSET
-HOUSE.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Watercolour. 14¼ by 10½ in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-This drawing, like <a href="#Note_14">No. 14</a>, is stamped with the initials “PS.”
-It was therefore in the collection of Paul Sandby, and below it, on
-mount, is the following inscription (not contemporary), “Drawn by
-T Sandby 1752.”
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-By <span class="smcap">T. Sandby</span>, R.A. (1721-1798).
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by H.M. the King.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">19</span> <a id="Note_19"></a><a href="#Plate_11">OLD LONDON BRIDGE FROM BILLINGSGATE.</a> <span class="smcap flright">Plate XI.</span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Watercolour. 21¼ by 12½ in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Shows, on the Surrey side of the river, St. Olave’s Church,
-Tooley Street, lately closed, a neighbouring shot tower destroyed in a
-fire of 1843, and St. Saviour’s Church, now Southwark Cathedral.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-By <span class="smcap">G. Yates</span>, 1828.
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by Sir E. Coates.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">20</span><a id="Note_20"></a> OLD LONDON BRIDGE FROM THE WEST.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Watercolour. 22 by 12½ in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-The bridge as altered when the houses on it were pulled down
-soon after the middle of the eighteenth century. The wide arch was
-then formed by the removal of a pier, two arches being thrown into
-one, which nearly caused the collapse of the fabric. An archaic
-steamer has a greyhound painted on its paddle-box.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-By <span class="smcap">G. Yates</span>, 1830.
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by Sir E. Coates.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">21</span><a id="Note_21"></a> BARN ELMS, 1793.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Watercolour. 12 by 9½ in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Scene by the river near Barnes. In the distance are the towers
-of Fulham Church and of Putney Church at each end of old Putney
-Bridge.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Barn Elms, east of what was the village of Barnes and extending
-to the river, doubtless derived its second name from the trees that
-abounded there. The mansion called Barn Elms, which is the chief
-building and has considerable grounds attached to it, is now occupied
-by the Ranelagh Club, which moved there from Ranelagh House,
-Fulham (not to be confused with Ranelagh, Chelsea), in 1884. At
-<span class='pagenum'><a id='Page_24' href='#Page_24'>24</a></span>
-Barn Elms, Jacob Tonson, the famous publisher, secretary of the
-Kitcat Club, built a gallery for the reception of portraits of the
-members.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-The painting, signed “EE,” is by Edward Edwards, elected
-A.R.A. in 1771, and made Professor of Perspective in 1788.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-By <span class="smcap">E. Edwards</span>, A.R.A. (1738-1806).
-
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by Sir H. Wilson.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">22</span><a id="Note_22"></a> THE MONUMENT FROM FISH STREET HILL.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Watercolour on etched outline. 9 by 12 in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-The Monument, designed by Sir Christopher Wren to commemorate
-the Great Fire of London, was finished in 1677. Beyond
-it is shown the steeple of the church of St. Magnus, also designed by
-Wren; beyond that again, part of the roadway of old London
-Bridge. After the removal of the houses on the bridge, its east path
-was continued along a passage then formed through the church
-tower. Fish Street Hill is a continuation of Gracechurch Street to
-the south, and was the main thoroughfare to old London Bridge.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-The painting is unsigned and undated: it belongs perhaps to the
-beginning of the nineteenth century.
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by Sir E. Coates.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">23</span> <a id="Note_23"></a><a href="#Plate_12">CAMP NEAR SERPENTINE, HYDE PARK, 1780.</a>
-<span class="smcap flright">Plate XII.</span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Watercolour. 19 by 10 in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Tents near the water. In the foreground a group of figures. To
-the left a dog is harnessed to a barrow, a man pushing behind.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Paul Sandby published “Views in the Encampments in the
-Parks,” 1780, for which series this was probably done.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-By <span class="smcap">P. Sandby</span>, R.A., 1780 (1725-1809).
-
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by H.M. the King.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">24</span><a id="Note_24"></a> OPERA HOUSE, HAYMARKET.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Watercolour. 10½ by 7¾ in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-The first theatre on this site (designed by Sir John Vanbrugh)
-was opened in 1705 and burnt down in 1789. The second building,
-which is here represented, was begun in 1790, and was enlarged by
-J. Nash and G. S. Repton in 1816-8.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-R. B. Schnebbelie, whose father also practised art, and whose
-<span class='pagenum'><a id='Page_25' href='#Page_25'>25</a></span>
-grandfather, a native of Zurich, had been in the Dutch navy, was
-employed as a draughtsman for many years beginning about 1803,
-and did much good work for Wilkinson’s “Londina Illustrata”; this
-is the original of an engraving in that publication. He died about 1849.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-By <span class="smcap">R. B. Schnebbelie</span>, 1819.
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by H.M. the King.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">25</span><a id="Note_25"></a> KING STREET GATE-HOUSE.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Watercolour. 8¼ by 13 in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-The original of an engraving which is in the first volume of
-“Vetusta Monumenta,” published by the Society of Antiquaries, the
-latter having on it the date 1725. This building stood at the north
-end of King Street and north-east corner of Downing Street, some
-little distance south of the so-called Holbein or Whitehall Gate-house,
-and although less ornate was of some beauty and importance, as
-may here be seen. It also dated from the time of Henry VIII, and
-was demolished in 1723 to improve the approaches to Westminster.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-George Vertue was in 1717 appointed engraver to the Society of
-Antiquaries, and did many excellent engravings for them; he also, as
-we see, practised in watercolour, and his literary works are of value.
-He collected a mass of memoranda relating to former artists, and this
-collection, now in the British Museum, having been bought after his
-death by Horace Walpole, formed the basis of the latter’s “Anecdotes
-of Painting in England.” Vertue lived and died a strict Roman
-Catholic.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-By <span class="smcap">G. Vertue</span>, 1723 (1684-1756).
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by H.M. the King.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">26</span><a id="Note_26"></a> THE OLD PLAYHOUSE, PORTUGAL STREET, LINCOLN’S INN FIELDS.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Watercolour. 8½ by 7½ in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-A brick building, with stone dressings and a tiled roof. It was
-on the site of a former theatre and dated from 1714. Here “The
-Beggar’s Opera” was produced, and ran for sixty nights. After
-various vicissitudes it became a store-place for Messrs. Copeland and
-Spode’s china, and was finally demolished for the enlargement of the
-Museum of the College of Surgeons.
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by H.M. the King.</i></span>
-<span class='pagenum'><a id='Page_26' href='#Page_26'>26</a></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">27</span><a id="Note_27"></a> CUPER’S GARDENS, LAMBETH, FROM THE RIVER.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Watercolour. 15½ by 6¾ in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-These gardens, over against Somerset House in the Strand, were
-named after Boydell Cuper, gardener to Thomas, Earl of Arundel,
-who, when Arundel House was taken down, moved some of the
-mutilated marbles there, and opened them as a place of popular amusement.
-It continued to be thus used, and was famous for its fireworks.
-Degenerating in character, it was suppressed about the year 1753.
-On the site Messrs. Beaufoy established their works; they moved to
-South Lambeth when Waterloo Bridge (which runs over part of
-the gardens) was erected. The watercolour hardly looks as if it
-were earlier than the date of the closing of the gardens. Perhaps
-there was no great change in the entrance for some years.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by Sir E. Coates.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">28</span><a id="Note_28"></a> THE NURSERY, GOLDEN LANE.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Watercolour. 6¼ by 8¼ in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Wrongly named the Fortune Play House, Golden Lane. The
-latter, originally built for Henslowe and Alleyn according to contract,
-“the frame to be sett square,” was destroyed by fire in 1621, and
-was replaced by a fabric of circular plan soon afterwards. In 1661 its
-site was advertised to be let for building.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-The “Nursery,” here depicted, was a school for the education
-of children for the stage, having been erected as the result of a patent
-granted by Charles II to one of the Legge family. It was drawn by
-J. T. Smith, who called it the Queen’s Nursery. The present watercolour
-was the original of an engraving in Wilkinson’s “Londina
-Illustrata.”
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-George Shepherd devoted himself to topographical work. There
-are many watercolours of old London buildings by him in the Coates
-and Crace collections and elsewhere, executed from about 1792 to
-1830 (his name being thus spelt), and they are good records.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-By <span class="smcap">G. Shepherd</span>, 1811.
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by H.M. the King.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">29</span><a id="Note_29"></a> ST. PAUL’S FROM AN ARCH OF BLACKFRIARS BRIDGE.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Watercolour. 6¾ by 8¼ in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-By <span class="smcap">T. Malton</span> the Younger (1748-1804).
-
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by Mr. A. A. Allen.</i></span>
-<span class='pagenum'><a id='Page_27' href='#Page_27'>27</a></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">30<i>a</i></span> REMAINS OF WINCHESTER HOUSE, AUSTIN FRIARS,
-FROM GREAT WINCHESTER STREET.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Watercolour. 8½ by 7 in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-After the Dissolution the precinct of Austin Friars, except the
-nave of the church, came into the hands of William Paulet, first
-Marquis of Winchester, who there made a residence for himself. A
-portion of it remained until 1844, and is here shown; the heavy portico
-is evidently a later addition. During recent excavations masonry was
-found which must have belonged to this building.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-By <span class="smcap">G. Shepherd</span>, 1811.
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by Sir E. Coates.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">30<i>b</i></span> BACK OF WINCHESTER HOUSE, AUSTIN FRIARS.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Watercolour. 7¼ by 4¾ in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Samuel Ireland, who painted this, was originally a mechanic of
-Spitalfields. He took to art, exhibited at the Royal Academy in
-1782, and brought out various illustrated books. The last was
-“Picturesque Views of the Inns of Court,” published in 1800, the
-year in which he died. His son achieved notoriety as forger of
-Shakespeare manuscripts.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-By <span class="smcap">S. Ireland</span>.
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by Sir E. Coates.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">31</span> <a id="Note_31"></a><a href="#Plate_13">INTERIOR OF SECOND ROYAL EXCHANGE.</a>
-<span class="smcap flright">Plate XIII.</span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Watercolour. 21½ by 16 in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-The first Royal Exchange was founded by Sir Thomas Gresham,
-being opened by Queen Elizabeth 23 January 1570-71. It was
-destroyed in the Great Fire.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-The second Exchange, designed by Edward Jarman or Jerman,
-City surveyor, and begun 1667, was, like the earlier one, a quadrangular
-building, with a clock tower on the chief front facing
-Cornhill. Business was transacted in the covered walk or cloister
-within. The statue of Charles II in the centre was by Grinling
-Gibbons.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-This view was drawn from the north-west corner of the walk;
-the pinnacles of St. Michael’s church tower, Cornhill, appear above
-the building.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Unsigned. Date probably about 1810.
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by Sir E. Coates.</i></span>
-<span class='pagenum'><a id='Page_28' href='#Page_28'>28</a></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">32</span><a id="Note_32"></a> VIEW FROM A HOUSE IN PALL MALL.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Watercolour. 11¼ by 14¾ in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-This view is signed and dated 1824, and forms a fitting companion
-to <a href="#Note_34">No. 34</a>, which is of the same style. The artist, William
-Hunt, born in 1790, had a great reputation in his day as a painter of
-fruit, flowers, birds’ nests, and other subjects of the kind, and also of
-rustic figures. His landscape is less known, and the works by him
-here exhibited are executed with unusual freedom. In these examples
-much of the outline is drawn with a pen.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-The artist in this case must have been sitting on the balustraded
-projection of a building, long ago destroyed, on the north side of
-Pall Mall. He looked east, and the steeple of the church of St.
-Martin-in-the-Fields appears in the distance.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-By <span class="smcap">W. Hunt</span>, 1824 (1790-1864).
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by Mr. T. Girtin.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">33</span> <a id="Note_33"></a><a href="#Plate_14">CHURCH OF ST. PETER LE POOR, OLD BROAD STREET.</a>
-<span class="smcap flright">Plate XIV.</span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Watercolour. 13½ by 17½ in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-This is the old church of St. Peter Le Poor on the west side of
-Old Broad Street, which in Stow’s opinion may have been so called
-because it was “sometime peradventure a poor parish.” It escaped
-the Great Fire, but traffic increasing, as it needed repair and projected
-into the street, it was pulled down in 1788 and rebuilt farther back.
-The second church, an indifferent piece of architecture, has been
-destroyed under the Union of Benefices Act within the last few years.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by Sir E. Coates.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">34</span> <a id="Note_34"></a><a href="#Plate_15">VIEW FROM THE CHURCHYARD OF ST. MARTIN’S-IN-THE-FIELDS.</a>
-<span class="smcap flright">Plate XV.</span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Watercolour. 13¼ by 19½ in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-In “Notes on Prout and Hunt” by Ruskin for an exhibition in
-1879-80, he says: “Hunt learned his business not in spots but in
-lines. Compare the sketch of the river-side, No. 124, which is as
-powerful in lines as Rembrandt, and the St. Martin’s Church,
-No. 123, which is like a bit of Hogarth.” The view is along the
-colonnaded west front of the church, and up St. Martin’s Lane, of
-which the part here shown no longer exists. The bit of churchyard
-with tombstones disappeared on the formation of Duncannon Street.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-By <span class="smcap">W. Hunt</span> (1790-1864).
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by Mr. T. Girtin.</i></span>
-<span class='pagenum'><a id='Page_29' href='#Page_29'>29</a></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">35</span> <a id="Note_35"></a><a href="#Plate_16">ENCAMPMENT IN THE GROUNDS OF MONTAGUE
-HOUSE.</a>
-<span class="smcap flright">Plate XVI.</span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Watercolour. 26½ by 19½ in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-The first Montague House, Bloomsbury, was destroyed by fire
-19 January 1685-6, and the second, here shown, was designed soon
-afterwards by a Frenchman, Pierre Puget, or Poughet. The encampment
-is on the open space at the back of the mansion. The West
-Yorkshire Regiment is represented marching past Dr. John Moore,
-Bishop of Bangor, afterwards Bishop of Canterbury. Montague
-House had been bought for the British Museum under an Act passed
-in 1753. Additions were gradually made, but it was not until 1845
-that the old building was entirely demolished.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-S. H. Grimm, who painted this watercolour, which is signed
-and dated, was born at Burgdorf, Switzerland, and settled in London
-about 1778. He sometimes exhibited at the Royal Academy, and
-was employed by the Society of Antiquaries, his work being chiefly
-topographical.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-By <span class="smcap">S. H. Grimm</span>, 1780 (1734-1794).
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by H.M. the King.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">36<i>a</i></span> VIEW NEAR THE TURNPIKE AT NEW CROSS.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Watercolour, outlined with a pen. 12½ by 9½ in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-The scene is a rural one, with what appear to be an oast-house
-and other farm buildings in the foreground. The hill is called in
-Rocque’s map showing the Environs of London (1745) Plow’d Garlick
-Hill, afterwards Telegraph Hill. On it stands Aske’s School, belonging
-to the Haberdashers’ Company. Much of the rest remained open
-until a few years ago; now only a recreation ground has been saved
-from the builder. This hill is immediately south of the Turnpike
-site, now called New Cross Gate. New Cross was an outlying district
-of the parish of Deptford. Evelyn, in his “Diary,” 10 November
-1675, mentions going in his coach from Sayes Court to “New
-Cross” to accompany Lord Berkeley to Dover.
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by Sir E. Coates.</i></span>
-<span class='pagenum'><a id='Page_30' href='#Page_30'>30</a></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">36<i>b</i></span> NEW CROSS TURNPIKE ON THE KENT ROAD.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Mezzotint, with an etched outline. 11 by 7¾ in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-This print happened to be mounted on the same sheet as the
-watercolour below. It was drawn by J. Dillon, engraved by R. Laurie,
-and published in 1783. To spectator’s left is a board with the words,
-“The New Cross House”; on the right a sign of a man’s head.
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by Sir E. Coates.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">37</span> <a id="Note_37"></a><a href="#Plate_17">CHANTREY CHAPEL OF HENRY V, WESTMINSTER ABBEY.</a>
-<span class="smcap flright">Plate XVII.</span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Drawn with a pen and tinted. 10¼ by 12½ in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-A careful architectural drawing, signed and dated, wherein some
-curious figures known as “the Ragged Regiment” are depicted.
-These are effigies of royal personages which were exhibited at their
-funerals. By degrees they got into a neglected state. Some years
-ago what remained of them was collected together, and the relics
-are now in the crypt adjoining the pyx chamber. A paper on
-them was published in “Archaeologia,” vol. lx, whence the following
-notes are culled identifying a few of the figures. The
-number refers to that on the drawing. II is thought to have represented
-Katherine of Valois. It is carved out of a single piece of
-wood; the dress has been painted bright vermilion. III, Anne of
-Denmark. IV, Henry VII, face finely modelled in plaster and
-painted, probably by an Italian. V is held to be Elizabeth of York.
-VI may have been James I, and VIII Queen Mary I. The fronts of
-the reliquary cupboards, here shown, have disappeared, their hinges
-remain. John Carter, an enthusiastic admirer of Gothic architecture,
-is referred to in our preface.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-By <span class="smcap">John Carter</span>, 1786 (1748-1817).
-
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by Sir E. Coates.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">38</span> <a id="Note_38"></a><a href="#Plate_18">ABBOT ISLIP’S CHAPEL, WESTMINSTER ABBEY.</a>
-<span class="smcap flright">Plate XVIII.</span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Watercolour. 15½ by 21½ in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-This painting was exhibited by Turner at the Royal Academy in
-1796, and is an example of the thorough architectural work which he
-sometimes did in his earlier years. On a stone in the pavement is
-<span class='pagenum'><a id='Page_31' href='#Page_31'>31</a></span>
-“William Turner natus 1775.” It was exhibited at the Burlington
-Fine Arts Club in 1871.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-By <span class="smcap">J. M. W. Turner</span>, R.A., 1796 (1775-1851).
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by Mr. R. W. Lloyd.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">39<i>a</i></span> SECOND ROYAL EXCHANGE FROM THE WEST.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Watercolour. 6¾ by 9½ in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-On the building at west end are the words: “Royal Exchange
-Insurance for lives.” The tower is surmounted by Gresham’s crest,
-the grasshopper. Signed and dated.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-By <span class="smcap">G. Shepherd</span>, 1810.
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by Sir E. Coates.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">39<i>b</i></span> SECOND ROYAL EXCHANGE FROM THE SOUTH-EAST.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-St. Paul’s Cathedral appears in the distance. Signed and dated.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-By <span class="smcap">G. Shepherd</span>, 1812.
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by Sir E. Coates.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">39<i>c</i></span> SECOND ROYAL EXCHANGE FROM THE SOUTH-EAST.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Etching and aquatint, touched with sepia. 5 by 7½ in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Same size as last from same point of view and similar in design,
-but tower as rebuilt, from design by G. Smith, surveyor to the
-Mercers’ Company, between 1819 and 1824, when a sum of over
-£34,000 was spent on the fabric.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-By <span class="smcap">G. Shepherd.</span>
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by Sir E. Coates.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">40<i>a</i></span> CHURCH OF ST. GILES, CRIPPLEGATE, FROM SOUTH-WEST.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Watercolour. 8 by 9½ in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-A church of Norman foundation, but rebuilt in the fourteenth
-century, and again to a great extent after a fire in 1545. Upper
-part of tower dates from 1683-4.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Signed and dated.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-By <span class="smcap">G. Shepherd</span>, 1815.
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by Sir E. Coates.</i></span>
-<span class='pagenum'><a id='Page_32' href='#Page_32'>32</a></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">40<i>b</i></span> CHURCH OF ST. GILES, CRIPPLEGATE, FROM FORE STREET.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Pencil. 7¾ by 6 in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-The building here shown against the church, in foreground, was
-called the Quest-house. It was destroyed about eighteen years ago.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-This drawing is signed by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd, who
-between about 1820 and 1859 did hundreds of views of old London,
-but, unlike others of his surname, never exhibited at the Royal
-Academy, and is not noticed by Redgrave.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-By <span class="smcap">T. H. Shepherd</span>.
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by Sir E. Coates.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">41</span> <a id="Note_41"></a><a href="#Plate_19">HALL OF BROTHERHOOD OF HOLY TRINITY, ALDERSGATE.</a>
-<span class="smcap flright">Plate XIX.</span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Pencil. 16 by 13 in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-This hall, described on the drawing as a chapel, was on the
-west side of Aldersgate Street, a little beyond the church of St.
-Botolph, and was destroyed about 1790. Here was latterly the
-Aldersgate Coffee-house; the site is marked by Trinity Court.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-The brotherhood was suppressed by Edward VI. It had been
-founded in 1377 as a fraternity of St. Fabian and St. Sebastian. The
-interior here shown has an open timber roof of the late fourteenth
-or early fifteenth century, and a Renaissance fireplace. In the large
-window is stained glass.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-William Capon, who made this and many other topographical
-drawings, was a scene-painter and architect; his antiquarian knowledge
-was considerable. He was a conceited man, Sheridan called
-him “Pompous Billy.”
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-By <span class="smcap">W. Capon</span>, 1790 (1757-1827).
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by Sir E. Coates.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">42<i>a</i></span> ST. JAMES’S PARK AND BUCKINGHAM HOUSE.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Watercolour. 16½ by 9¼ in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-From the end of the ornamental water looking towards Buckingham
-House; on the left are important buildings facing the park.
-Many figures, boy in foreground flying a kite. The canal was formed
-<span class='pagenum'><a id='Page_33' href='#Page_33'>33</a></span>
-soon after the Restoration. Pepys on 16 September 1660, mentions
-seeing the work in progress.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Carefully drawn with a pen and tinted, after the manner of the
-artist, who usually engraved his views on copper.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-By <span class="smcap">J. Maurer</span>, 1741.
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by H.M. the King.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">42<i>b</i></span> ST. JAMES’S PALACE AND THE MALL.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Watercolour. 16¾ by 8¾ in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-In the distance is the steeple of St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields. Deer
-can be seen in the open ground to right.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-By <span class="smcap">J. Maurer</span>, 1741.
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by H.M. the King.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">43</span><a id="Note_43"></a> ST. MARY-LE-BONE CHURCH.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Watercolour. 6½ by 4 in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-The new church built in 1813-4. A rural scene, in the foreground
-are trees and a pond.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-By <span class="smcap">J. Varley</span> (1778-1842).
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by Mr. J. P. Heseltine.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">44</span><a id="Note_44"></a> SALE OF BOOKS BY AUCTION AT SOTHEBY’S.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Watercolour. 9¼ by 5¾ in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Drawn with a pen and tinted after Rowlandson’s usual manner.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-We are fortunate in exhibiting caricatures of auction sales by
-two historic firms, both still flourishing. Sotheby’s began in 1744
-with Mr. Samuel Baker, who at first held sales in taverns and other
-convenient places. In 1754 he established himself at York Street,
-Covent Garden, and in 1767 formed a partnership with Mr. J. Leigh.
-In 1778 the firm became Leigh and Sotheby. We need only add that
-in 1804 the business was moved to 145 Strand, and in 1818 to
-3 Waterloo Bridge, re-named 13 Wellington Street, which was given
-up two years ago for more commodious quarters in New Bond Street.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-By <span class="smcap">T. Rowlandson</span> (1756-1827).
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson, and Hodge.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">45</span> <a id="Note_45"></a><a href="#Plate_20">SITE OF EUSTON SQUARE, 1809.</a>
-<span class="smcap flright">Plate XX.</span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Watercolour. 9¾ by 8½ in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Signed “T. Rowlandson.” Written in pencil, but hidden, are
-the words: “Richard Trevithick’s Railroad, Euston Square 1809.”
-<span class='pagenum'><a id='Page_34' href='#Page_34'>34</a></span>
-In fact, the Square dates only from 1825; as late as 1820 its site was
-a large nursery garden, and a group of farm buildings occupied
-ground on which the London and North Western Railway now
-stands. Trevithic, “father of the locomotive engine,” the main facts
-of whose remarkable career are recorded in “Dict. Nat. Biog.,”
-must have hired the ground in order to test and exhibit his invention.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-In the distance is Primrose Hill, with Hampstead beyond.
-Attractive design and colour give charm to a subject not easy of
-treatment.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Rowlandson, trained in Paris and at the Academy schools, was
-an accomplished artist, capable of something much more refined than
-his clever caricatures, which most people know by coarse reproductions
-of them.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-By <span class="smcap">T. Rowlandson</span>, 1809 (1756-1827).
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by Mr. H. C. Levis.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">46</span><a id="Note_46"></a> SALE OF PICTURES BY AUCTION AT CHRISTIE’S.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Watercolour. 11¼ by 8¼ in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-The firm owes its origin to a notable man, James Christie, who
-issued his first catalogue in 1766. A portrait of him, painted by
-his friend Gainsborough, originally a good advertisement of the
-skill of the artist, was long hanging in the “great auction rooms”
-on the south side of Pall Mall, where Christie took up his quarters,
-next to Schomberg House. It was afterwards at the present address,
-No. 8 King Street, St. James’s, to which the firm moved in 1824.
-They now only have an engraving of it. Rowlandson drew another
-caricature of an auction sale at Christie’s.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-By <span class="smcap">T. Rowlandson</span> (1756-1827).
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by Messrs. Christie, Manson, and Woods.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">47</span> <a id="Note_47"></a><a href="#Plate_21">OLD CHEESE-CAKE HOUSE, HYDE PARK, 1797.</a>
-<span class="smcap flright">Plate XXI.</span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Watercolour. 21½ by 12 in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-The building, close to the Serpentine, is thus mentioned in
-Howard’s “English Monsieur” (1674): “Nay, ’tis no London
-female; she’s a thing that never saw a cheesecake, a tart, or a
-syllabub at the Lodge in Hyde Park.” Swift writes to Stella that
-<span class='pagenum'><a id='Page_35' href='#Page_35'>35</a></span>
-after his duel with Lord Mohun the Duke of Hamilton was helped
-towards the “Cake-house,” but died on the grass before he could
-reach it. Later it was sometimes called the Mince-pie House.
-Demolished 1835-36. There is an engraving of it in the “Gentleman’s
-Magazine” for May 1801.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Date 1797.
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by H.M. the King.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">48<i>a</i><a id="Note_48a"></a></span> BUCKINGHAM HOUSE.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Wash drawing in Indian ink. 10¾ by 5¾ in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Buckingham House in St. James’s Park was designed by
-Captain William Winde, said to have been a pupil of Gerbier, and
-to have been born at Bergen-op-Zoom, being finished for John
-Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham, in 1705. There is an account of it
-with elevation in Sir Reginald Blomfield’s book on English renaissance
-architecture. It was bought by George III, settled on Queen
-Charlotte, and here Dr. Johnson had his famous interview with
-the King. The original building was altered and added to from
-1825 onwards until it quite disappeared, Buckingham Palace covering
-the site.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Winde was of Norfolk family, well connected. See references to
-him in “Notes and Queries,” and his pedigree by Mr. J. Challenor
-Smith in Surrey Arch. Coll., vol. x.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-By <span class="smcap">J. Maurer</span>, 1746.
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by H.M. the King.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">48<i>b</i></span><a id="Note_48b"></a> THE HORSE GUARDS PARADE.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Wash drawing in Indian ink. 10¾ by 5¾ in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-On spectator’s left is the Admiralty (on the site of Wallingford
-House), surmounted by a semaphore telegraph. To the left of the
-Banqueting House is the Guard House, not that designed by Kent
-and finished by Vardy, but a previous building. Through the gateway
-beneath, a long procession has issued, the royal carriage with
-eight horses being in the foreground. Among other buildings shown
-are the Holbein Gate-house and the Treasury.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-By <span class="smcap">J. Maurer</span>, about 1750.
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by H.M. the King.</i></span>
-<span class='pagenum'><a id='Page_36' href='#Page_36'>36</a></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">49</span> <a id="Note_49"></a><a href="#Plate_22">FISHMONGERS’ HALL FROM THE RIVER.</a>
-<span class="smcap flright">Plate XXII.</span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Watercolour. 12 by 8¼ in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-The Fishmongers stand fourth on the list of the City Companies.
-This was their hall built after the Great Fire by Edward Jerman. It
-is said to have been the scene of Plate VIII of Hogarth’s “Industry
-and Idleness,” and was destroyed at the time of the rebuilding of
-London Bridge, which now covers its site. The present hall, near
-the north-west angle of the bridge, is a short distance farther up the
-river. The original hall had been the residence of Lord Fanhope.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Date about 1810.
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by Sir E. Coates.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">50</span><a id="Note_50"></a> LANDING AT THE “CROWN AND SCEPTRE” TAVERN, GREENWICH.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Watercolour. 11¾ by 8¼ in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Part of Greenwich Hospital in mid-distance. The “Crown and
-Sceptre” was one of the old riverside taverns which ministered to the
-taste of Londoners for whitebait.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-By <span class="smcap">T. Rowlandson</span> (1756-1827).
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by Mr. E. H. Coles.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">51</span><a id="Note_51"></a> THE BANK LOTTERY.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Watercolour. 23¾ by 16½ in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-A lottery in the Rotunda of the Bank of England.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Between 1709 and 1824 the Government raised large sums from
-lotteries authorized by Act of Parliament.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-By <span class="smcap">T. Rowlandson</span> (1756-1827).
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by Sir E. Coates.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">52</span><a id="Note_52"></a> BARTHOLOMEW FAIR.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Watercolour. 13 by 8¾ in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-In Smithfield, entrance of St. Bartholomew’s Hospital on the
-left. The fair is in progress: there are booths, swings, etc., and
-many figures. St. Sepulchre’s Church-tower in the distance.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-In the same frame is an etching of the subject by Rowlandson,
-to which colour has been crudely added.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-By <span class="smcap">T. Rowlandson</span>, 1807 (1756-1827).
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by Sir E. Coates.</i></span>
-<span class='pagenum'><a id='Page_37' href='#Page_37'>37</a></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">53</span><a id="Note_53"></a> SAVOY RUINS.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Wash drawing in sepia. 12¼ by 8¼ in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-The Savoy near the Strand was a house or palace built in 1245
-by Peter, Earl of Savoy and Richmond, uncle of Eleanor, wife to
-Henry III. John, King of France, was imprisoned there after the
-battle of Poictiers. When in the hands of John of Gaunt it was burnt
-by Wat Tyler and his followers. After this it appears to have been
-neglected, till in 1505 Henry VII endowed it as a Hospital of
-St. John Baptist for the relief of poor people. Suppressed in 1553,
-and re-endowed by Queen Mary Tudor, seventeenth century plans
-show an important river frontage. It was maintained as a hospital
-until 1702, but Strype in 1720 describes it as being partly a prison; in
-another portion was “the King’s printing press for proclamations,”
-etc. After gradual decay the last remains of the building were
-destroyed in the earlier years of the nineteenth century.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-The arches in mid-distance most likely belong to Blackfriars
-Bridge. Waterloo Bridge, first called Strand Bridge, was begun in
-1811.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-We may call to mind that the gifted artist who drew this, and
-died at the age of twenty-seven, was born in the same year as
-W. M. Turner, whose well-known saying, “if Tom Girtin had lived
-I should have starved,” is a fine tribute to his genius.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-By <span class="smcap">T. Girtin</span> (1775-1802).
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by Mr. T. Girtin.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">54</span><a id="Note_54"></a> DRURY LANE THEATRE.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Watercolour. 9 by 5¾ in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-The first theatre on this site was opened by the King’s Company
-in 1663, and was burnt down in 1672. The next, designed by Sir
-Christopher Wren, was opened in 1674 and was new-faced by the
-brothers Adam. A third theatre, designed by H. Holland, was
-opened in 1794 and burnt down in 1809. James and Horace Smith’s
-“Rejected Addresses” were burlesque prologues for the fourth
-theatre, designed by Benjamin Dean Wyatt, which is here portrayed.
-It was opened 10 October 1812, with a prologue by Lord Byron,
-whose style the Smiths had parodied. The portico in Brydges Street,
-now Catherine Street, was added when Elliston was lessee, and the
-colonnade, Little Russell Street, in 1831.
-<span class='pagenum'><a id='Page_38' href='#Page_38'>38</a></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-This is the original of an engraving in Wilkinson’s “Londina
-Illustrata.” Whichelo, who painted it, devoted himself to topographical
-and afterwards marine subjects. He exhibited at the Royal
-Academy and was for many years member of the Old Watercolour
-Society. He died in 1865.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-By <span class="smcap">J. M. Whichelo</span>, <i>c.</i> 1813.
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by H.M. the King.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">55</span><a id="Note_55"></a> THAMES BELOW BRIDGE, LOOKING TOWARDS ST. PAUL’S.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Watercolour. 21 by 13 in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-A reach of the river with shipping, and old buildings to left,
-which, from their position and that of St. Paul’s in the distance,
-must be on the Surrey shore, near Rotherhithe.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-By John Thomas, elder son of Domenic Serres, R.A., native of
-Gascony. He was a successful painter of landscape and marine views,
-but was ruined by the depravity and extravagance of his wife, born
-Olive Wilmot, who called herself Princess of Cumberland. He died
-within the rules of the King’s Bench Prison.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-By <span class="smcap">J. T. Serres</span> (1759-1825).
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by Mr. H. Oppenheimer.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">56</span><a id="Note_56"></a> FIFE HOUSE FROM THE THAMES.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Watercolour. 8¾ by 9½ in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Fife House, Whitehall Yard, built for James Duff, second Earl
-of Fife in 1772, was let by his executors to the Earl of Liverpool,
-who died there in 1828, when Prime Minister. It was next to the
-late United Service Institution originally Vanbrugh’s “Goose-pie,”
-and was pulled down in 1869.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-By <span class="smcap">G. Shepherd</span>, 1805.
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by Mr. E. H. Coles.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">57</span><a id="Note_57"></a> MELBOURNE HOUSE, NOW THE ALBANY, PICCADILLY.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Wash drawing in Indian ink. 8½ by 6 in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Designed by Sir William Chambers, and sold in 1771 by the
-first Lord Holland to the first Viscount Melbourne, who exchanged
-it with Frederick, Duke of York and <i>Albany</i> for Melbourne (latterly
-called Dover) House, Whitehall. It was afterwards converted into
-<span class='pagenum'><a id='Page_39' href='#Page_39'>39</a></span>
-chambers, the garden behind being built over with additional sets of
-rooms.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Frederick Nash, who drew this, was son of a builder in Lambeth,
-and studied under Malton the younger, being also employed as a
-draughtsman by Sir R. Smirke. He began exhibiting at the Academy
-in 1800, became a member of the Old Watercolour Society, and
-architectural draughtsman to the Society of Antiquaries.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-By <span class="smcap">F. Nash</span> (1782-1856).
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by H.M. the King.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">58</span><a id="Note_58"></a> RIVER VIEW FROM BELOW YORK WATER-GATE.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Watercolour. 9½ by 6 in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-The artist who painted this was son of George Barret, R.A.,
-and in 1804 was a foundation member of the Old Watercolour
-Society. He excelled in classical landscapes, and published a book
-on the “Theory and Practice of Watercolour Painting.”
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-By <span class="smcap">G. Barret</span> the Younger (1767-1842).
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by Mr. H. C. Levis.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">59</span> <a id="Note_59"></a><a href="#Plate_23">ST. DUNSTAN’S-IN-THE-WEST, FLEET STREET.</a>
-<span class="smcap flright">Plate XXIII.</span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Watercolour on etched outline. 18¾ by 13 in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-The old Church, of early foundation, had been damaged in the
-Great Fire, and was repeatedly altered and patched. It stood more
-forward in the street than the present building. When the church
-was taken down, about 1830, the projecting clock, with its figures
-which struck the hours and quarters, was bought by the then Marquess
-of Hertford, and moved to his villa in the Regent’s Park (hence
-called St. Dunstan’s), long occupied by the first Lord Aldenham,
-where it still remains. The statue of Queen Elizabeth at the east end
-of the church came from Ludgate, taken down in 1760, and is now
-over the entrance of the present church vestry. On the edge of the
-pavement is a porters’ rest. Temple Bar in mid-distance.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-By <span class="smcap">T. Malton</span> the Elder (1726-1801).
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by Lord Aldenham.</i></span>
-<span class='pagenum'><a id='Page_40' href='#Page_40'>40</a></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">60</span><a id="Note_60"></a> MIDDLE TEMPLE HALL FROM SOUTH-EAST.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Watercolour. 9¾ by 6¾ in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Built in 1572. Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” is mentioned by
-a student named Manningham as having been performed here on
-2 February 1601-2. The outside was dressed with stone in 1757.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-To spectator’s left the Temple Fountain is shown, approached by
-steps.
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by Sir E. Coates.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">61</span> <a id="Note_61"></a><a href="#Plate_24">WESTMINSTER ABBEY FROM DEAN’S YARD.</a>
-<span class="smcap flright">Plate XXIV.</span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-18¼ by 12¾ in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-A general view of the Abbey from the south-west, Westminster
-schoolboys and masters in foreground. There is an engraving of
-this subject.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-By <span class="smcap">T. Malton</span> the Elder (1726-1801).
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by the City of Birmingham Art Gallery.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">62</span><a id="Note_62"></a> BEAUCHAMP TOWER—TOWER OF LONDON.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Watercolour. 6 by 6¾ in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Under the mount are the words in pencil “Beauchamp Tower,”
-and this is probably correct. The building, however, has been much
-altered since 1798.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Charles Tomkins, painter and aquatint engraver, son of W.
-Tomkins, A.R.A., did a number of topographical views of London.
-In 1796 he published a “Tour in the Isle of Wight,” with eighty
-engravings, and in 1805 “Views of Reading Abbey.”
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-By <span class="smcap">C. Tomkins</span>, 1798 (1757-1810).
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by Mr. E. H. Coles.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">63</span> <a id="Note_63"></a><a href="#Plate_25">WAPPING.</a>
-<span class="smcap flright">Plate XXV.</span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-21¼ by 16¾ in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Important houses on river front. Boat building in progress.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-By <span class="smcap">T. Girtin</span> (1773-1802).
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by the Leicester Art Gallery.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">64</span> <a id="Note_64"></a><a href="#Plate_26">EAST INDIA HOUSE FROM THE WEST.</a>
-<span class="smcap flright">Plate XXVI.</span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Watercolour. 38 by 28 in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-In “Relics of the Hon. East India Company,” illustrations by
-W. Griggs, letterpress by Sir George Birdwood and W. Foster, a
-<span class='pagenum'><a id='Page_41' href='#Page_41'>41</a></span>
-plate from this watercolour is described as follows: “The House
-occupied by the East India Company in Leadenhall Street, as refaced
-in 1726. From a coloured drawing by T. Malton, March 1800.”
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-The East India House, on the south side of Leadenhall Street,
-is shown on spectator’s right; crowds on the pavement, among them
-Indians; a coach in the roadway. Opposite are old buildings which
-escaped the Great Fire.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-As already implied by the titles, there were two Thomas Maltons,
-father and son, and it is sometimes difficult to distinguish their
-work. The father (1726-1801) exhibited London views at the Royal
-Academy in 1772 and 1774. He taught perspective. His watercolours,
-as a rule, were what were known as “tinted drawings,”
-begun in Indian ink. The son (1748-1804) received a premium at
-the Royal Society of Arts in 1774, and a gold medal at the Royal
-Academy in 1782. In 1792 he published “A Picturesque Tour
-through the Cities of London and Westminster containing a hundred
-aquatints.” He also exhibited London views at the Royal Academy.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-By <span class="smcap">T. Malton</span> the Younger (1748-1804).
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by the Secretary of State for India.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">65</span><a id="Note_65"></a> THE GENERAL COURT-ROOM, EAST INDIA HOUSE.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Watercolour. 7¾ by 5¾ in.
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by the Secretary of State for India.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">66</span><a id="Note_66"></a> THE DIRECTORS’ COURT-ROOM, EAST INDIA HOUSE.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Watercolour. 8¾ by 6 in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Shows the two high chairs here exhibited.
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by the Secretary of State for India.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">67</span> <a id="Note_67"></a><a href="#Plate_27">SADLER’S WELLS.</a>
-<span class="smcap flright">Plate XXVII.</span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Oil picture. 15 by 10¾ in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Sadler’s Wells, between the New River Head and St. John
-Street Road, Islington, was so called from a spring of mineral water
-discovered there by a man named Sadler, who in 1683 opened a
-music-room connected with it. In course of time rope dancing,
-tumbling, pantomime, and other entertainments took place there.
-About 1790 it became a theatre, being still among fields. The New
-<span class='pagenum'><a id='Page_42' href='#Page_42'>42</a></span>
-River flowed by, and water was introduced from it to a large tank
-beneath the floor of the stage—used for naval spectacles, etc.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Here in 1832 T. P. Cooke made his first appearance as William
-in “Black-Eyed Susan.” The theatre fell into disrepute, but was
-revived by Phelps who, 1844-62, made it “the home of the legitimate
-drama.” Closed for some years, it was rebuilt in 1879, and for a short
-time was under the management of Mrs. Bateman. This picture agrees
-with the view of the old house in Wilkinson’s “Londina Illustrata.”
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-By <span class="smcap">R. C. Andrews</span>, 1792.
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by the Hon. Lady Lyttelton.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">68</span> <a id="Note_68"></a><a href="#Plate_28">GREEN PARK, 1760.</a>
-<span class="smcap flright">Plate XXVIII.</span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Oil picture. 50 by 31 in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-In the foreground is a man seated on a rail, with what looks
-like a plan or drawing in his left hand. He turns to the spectator
-and, with his right, points in the direction of Spencer House, the
-park front of which still remains unaltered. This figure, in all likelihood,
-represents John Vardy, the architect who designed it. The pond
-is wrongly named Rosamond’s Pond on the frame. It is mentioned in
-the Calendar of Treasury Papers, 9 June 1725, as a “canal or basin
-lately made over against Devonshire House,” and was soon afterwards
-converted into a reservoir of Chelsea Waterworks. A walk by
-it, planted with trees, was called the Queen’s Walk. This reservoir
-was enlarged in 1729, and filled up in 1856. The Green Park
-Rosamond’s Pond was in the old bed of the Tyburn, much farther
-west. A more famous Rosamond’s Pond, in St. James’s Park, disappeared
-1770. All three are marked on Rocque’s map of 1746. The
-figures scattered about the foreground and reflected in the water
-show very well the costume of the period. In the distance is
-Buckingham House (see <a href="#Note_48a">No. 48</a>).
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-By <span class="smcap">W. Hogarth</span>, 1760 (1697-1764).
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by the Earl Spencer.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">69</span><a id="Note_69"></a> NORTHUMBERLAND HOUSE, KING CHARLES’S STATUE,
-AND THE GOLDEN CROSS, CHARING CROSS.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Oil picture. 16 by 9 in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-This historic mansion was built <i>c.</i> 1605 for Henry Howard,
-Earl of Northampton, and left by him to his nephew, Thomas
-Howard, Earl of Suffolk. It came to the Percys through the
-<span class='pagenum'><a id='Page_43' href='#Page_43'>43</a></span>
-marriage, in 1642, of the daughter of the second Earl of Suffolk with
-the tenth Earl of Northumberland. The house was sold under the
-compulsory clause of an Act of Parliament in 1873, and Northumberland
-Avenue covers the site. The lion on the front is of lead,
-and is now at Syon House, Isleworth. The statue of Charles I was
-the work of Hubert Le Sœur, and the pedestal, according to Horace
-Walpole, was by Grinling Gibbons, but it is now generally assigned
-to Joshua Marshall, master mason. On the left appears the famous
-old Golden Cross coaching inn, its sign overhanging the roadway.
-It was rebuilt in 1832. An engraving of this design, issued in 1753,
-has on it “Canaletti pinx<sup>t</sup> et delin<sup>t</sup>.—T Bowles sculp<sup>t</sup>.” It was republished
-by Laurie and Whittle in 1794.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-By <span class="smcap">Canaletto</span>, 1697-1768.
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by the Marquess of Sligo.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">70</span><a id="Note_70"></a> FOUNDLING HOSPITAL.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Oil picture. A circle, 21 in. in diameter.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-William Hogarth was most active in helping the Foundling
-Hospital during its early period. In the charter of incorporation he
-appears as a “Governor and Guardian.” Immediately afterwards, in
-1740, he gave one of his masterpieces, the portrait of Captain Coram,
-founder, and within a few years the “March to Finchley,” and other
-pictures. In 1746 various painters were induced through his influence
-to present examples of their work; among them were F. Hayman,
-S. Scott, R. Wilson, and T. Gainsborough, and all were elected
-Governors excepting the last-named, then a mere lad, who, after
-some years’ work in London, had lately returned to Norfolk. As
-time went on further help of this kind was forthcoming, crowds
-flocked to see the paintings, and the success of such informal exhibitions
-prepared the way for the foundation of the Royal Academy.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-The building here shown was designed by Theodore Jacobsen,
-who came of a family long connected with the Steelyard, and whose
-portrait was painted by Hudson.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-The site of the Hospital had been part of Lamb’s Conduit Fields.
-Over the wall, to spectator’s left, is the burial ground of the parish
-of St. George the Martyr, now a public garden.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-By <span class="smcap">R. Wilson</span>, R.A., 1746 (1714-1782).
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by the Foundling Hospital.</i></span>
-<span class='pagenum'><a id='Page_44' href='#Page_44'>44</a></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">71</span> <a id="Note_71"></a><a href="#Plate_29">ST. GEORGE’S HOSPITAL.</a>
-<span class="smcap flright">Plate XXIX.</span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Oil picture. A circle, 21 in. in diameter.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-The second picture by Wilson represents St. George’s Hospital
-from the Green Park. Until 1733 the central part had been the
-suburban residence of the second Viscount Lanesborough, created
-an earl in 1756. It was rebuilt in 1828-29, and since then has been
-more than once enlarged.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-By <span class="smcap">R. Wilson</span>, R.A., 1746 (1714-1782).
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by the Foundling Hospital.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">72</span> <a id="Note_72"></a><a href="#Plate_30">THE CHARTERHOUSE.</a>
-<span class="smcap flright">Plate XXX.</span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Oil picture. A circle, 21 in. in diameter.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-An interesting example of Gainsborough’s early work. It is
-astonishing that when he presented it (in the year of his marriage)
-he was only nineteen, but the authorities of the Foundling Hospital
-have no doubt that it was given by him in 1746. The scene depicted
-at the Charterhouse is the “Terrace,” a paved walk resting on the
-arcade built with it by the Duke of Norfolk, 1565-1571, as a double
-ambulatory to his tennis court. The terrace overlooks (to spectator’s
-left) the site of the great cloister of the ancient monastery, afterwards
-the Duke’s garden, then the “Upper Green” or match-ground of
-the school, and now the Merchant Taylors’ playground. The tower
-with light shining on it is the chapel tower.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-By <span class="smcap">T. Gainsborough</span>, R.A., 1746 (1727-1788).
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by the Foundling Hospital.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">73</span> <a id="Note_73"></a><a href="#Plate_31">ALDGATE SCHOOL AND WATCH-HOUSE AND TOWER
-OF CHURCH.</a>
-<span class="smcap flright">Plate XXXI.</span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Pen and wash drawing. 10 by 9½ in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-The church of St. Botolph, Aldgate, was rebuilt in 1744, from
-the designs of George Dance the elder. In 1710 Sir John Cass,
-alderman, had presented this school near the church with shops and
-a vault beneath, for the benefit of the ward, and he afterwards left
-property for educational purposes, which has become of great value.
-About 1750 a lead statue of him, modelled by Roubiliac, was placed
-in front of the building. In 1762 the school was moved into a house
-<span class='pagenum'><a id='Page_45' href='#Page_45'>45</a></span>
-in Church Row, the original building being used for other purposes,
-but this statue and statuettes of a schoolboy and a schoolgirl remained
-in their niches as here shown. The building was not destroyed
-until many years afterwards. Here one sees that in 1815 part of it
-was a watch-house. Most of the site has been absorbed by a widening
-of Houndsditch. The statue of Sir John is now in the modern
-building known as the Cass Foundation, Jewry Street. The drawing
-was done for Wilkinson’s “Londina Illustrata,” but does not appear
-in that publication.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-By <span class="smcap">R. B. Schnebbelie</span> (died about 1849).
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by Sir E. Coates.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">74</span><a id="Note_74"></a> INTERIOR OF REGENCY THEATRE.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Watercolour. 8¾ by 6¾ in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-The Regency Theatre, Tottenham Street, Tottenham Court
-Road, was built on the site of a concert room. After being renamed
-several times and passing through various hands, it was remodelled
-and became the Prince of Wales’s theatre under the Bancrofts. They
-moved to the Haymarket in 1880. The Prince of Wales’s theatre,
-after remaining vacant for years, was occupied by the Salvation
-Army, and on the site is now the Scala theatre.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-By <span class="smcap">R. B. Schnebbelie</span>, 1816 (died about 1849).
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by H.M. the King.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">75</span><a id="Note_75"></a> THE MANSION HOUSE.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Watercolour. 6 by 8 in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-The residence of the Lord Mayor during his term of office. Built
-on the site of Stocks Market, from the designs of George Dance
-the elder, who was City Surveyor. The first stone was laid in 1739,
-but it was not finished until 1753. The top story here depicted, and
-once familiarly known to cockneys as “the Mare’s Nest,” was taken
-down in 1842.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-By <span class="smcap">F. Nash</span>, 1802 (1782-1856).
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by Sir E. Coates.</i></span>
-<span class='pagenum'><a id='Page_46' href='#Page_46'>46</a></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">76</span><a id="Note_76"></a> RIVER SCENE AT GREENWICH.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Oil picture. 23¼ by 19½ in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Looking up the river, Greenwich Hospital on the left. Boats
-and shipping. In the preface, <a href='#Page_14'>p. 14</a>, Samuel Scott has already been
-referred to.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-By <span class="smcap">S. Scott</span> (about 1710-1772).
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by Mr. C. H. St. John Hornby.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">77</span> <a id="Note_77"></a><a href="#Plate_32">EAST INDIA HOUSE FROM THE EAST.</a>
-<span class="smcap flright">Plate XXXII.</span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Watercolour. 37 by 25½ in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Shows the façade of the East India House as rebuilt according
-to the design of Richard Jupp, architect of the Company, and
-afterwards carried out by his successor, H. Holland, when the house
-was extended east to Lime Street. The pediment of the Ionic portico
-was filled with sculpture by John Bacon, R.A. The ornate building,
-of which we have a separate view (<a href="#Note_17">No. 17</a>), is next to the East India
-House, on the west. Beyond are the spire of St. Peter’s, Cornhill,
-and the tower of St. Michael’s.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-By <span class="smcap">T. Malton</span> the Younger (1748-1804).
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by the Secretary of State for India.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">78</span> <a id="Note_78"></a><a href="#Plate_33">A WATER PAGEANT ON THE THAMES.</a>
-<span class="smcap flright">Plate XXXIII.</span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Oil picture. 43½ by 23½ in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-This doubtless represents a procession of the Lord Mayor elect
-from Three Crane Stairs to Westminster, which until the adoption
-of the new style in 1752 took place on 29 October (the day after
-the feast of SS. Simon and Jude) and was the precursor of the present
-Lord Mayor’s Show. A gay scene and evidently a noisy one,
-the river crowded with state barges belonging to the Corporation and
-the City Companies, adorned with flags, streamers, pendants, etc.,
-and there is much loud music. To spectator’s left is old Somerset
-House, every point of vantage occupied by spectators watching the
-show. Behind is the steeple of St. Mary-le-Strand. St. Paul’s Cathedral
-is conspicuous, and many church towers and spires appear, also
-the Monument, part of old London Bridge before the removal of
-houses, and in the distance the Tower of London.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-School of <span class="smcap">S. Scott</span>.
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by the Earl Brownlow.</i></span>
-<span class='pagenum'><a id='Page_47' href='#Page_47'>47</a></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">79</span><a id="Note_79"></a> OLD BLACKFRIARS BRIDGE.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Oil picture. 20½ by 15¼ in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-This painting is wrongly called on the frame “Southwark
-Bridge,” the first stone of which was not laid until 1815. It represents
-the first Blackfriars Bridge, originally Pitt Bridge, designed
-by R. Mylne and built between 1760 and 1769. The Temple Gardens
-are shown to the left and St. Paul’s beyond them.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-R. Burford is chiefly known as the painter and proprietor of
-panoramas in Leicester Square and in the Strand. He also exhibited
-at the Royal Academy from 1812 to 1818. The date on the frames
-of this and the companion picture (<a href="#Note_80">No. 80</a>) is 1808, which seems too
-early for such mature work, as he was born in 1792 and would therefore
-have been only sixteen at the time.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-By <span class="smcap">R. Burford</span> (1792-1861).
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by Mr. Colin Agnew.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">80</span><a id="Note_80"></a> OLD LONDON BRIDGE.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Oil picture. 20¼ by 16 in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-The picture shows the old bridge after it had been altered by the
-removal of the houses, several arches at the end are blocked by waterworks.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-The Monument is noteworthy, as are the steeples of the churches
-of St. Magnus, St. Margaret Pattens, and St. Dunstan-in-the-East,
-all designed by Sir Christopher Wren.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-By <span class="smcap">R. Burford</span> (1792-1861).
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by Mr. Colin Agnew.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">81</span> <a id="Note_81"></a><a href="#Plate_34">WESTMINSTER BRIDGE AND WESTMINSTER ABBEY FROM THE RIVER.</a>
-<span class="smcap flright">Plate XXXIV.</span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Oil picture. 35½ by 18 in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-From mid-stream, below bridge. Among prominent buildings,
-besides the Bridge and the Abbey, are the Banqueting House
-Whitehall, the tower of St. Margaret’s Church, and Westminster
-Hall. In distance to left is Lambeth Palace.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-By <span class="smcap">S. Scott</span> (about 1710-1772).
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by the Marquess of Sligo.</i></span>
-<span class='pagenum'><a id='Page_48' href='#Page_48'>48</a></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">82</span> <a id="Note_82"></a><a href="#Plate_35">SIR RICHARD STEELE’S COTTAGE, HAMPSTEAD.</a>
-<span class="smcap flright">Plate XXXV.</span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Oil picture, 10¾ by 7½ in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-In 1832 Constable exhibited this very small picture at the Royal
-Academy under the title given above. It is numbered 147 in the
-catalogue.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-The view was painted from what is now called Haverstock Hill,
-looking towards London, St. Paul’s Cathedral in the distance. There
-is a mezzotint of it by David Lucas. To the small house on the right
-Steele retired during the summer of 1712. In a letter to Pope dated
-1 June of that year he says: “I am at a solitude, an house between
-Hampstead and London wherein Sir Charles Sedley died.” Isaac
-Reed, editor of Shakespeare, in his edition of Baker’s “Biographia
-Dramatica,” says: “part of the building remains.” In 1855-56 it
-was a dairy, faced by the “Load of Hay” public-house, here shown
-with Georgian buildings next to it. In one of these, then a dame’s
-school, George Grossmith, second of that name, was a pupil. Afterwards
-Steele’s cottage was divided into two tenements. According to
-F. Baines (“History of Hampstead,” 1890), they were pulled down
-in 1867. Steele’s Road covers the site.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-By <span class="smcap">J. Constable</span>, R.A., 1832 (1776-1837).
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by Mr. R. K. Hodgson.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">83</span><a id="Note_83"></a> VIEW LOOKING DOWN THE RIVER FROM ABOVE ADELPHI TERRACE.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Oil picture. 17½ by 6½ in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Shows Adelphi Terrace and low buildings along the foreshore,
-then unchanged. In the distance is old London Bridge.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-The painter, David Turner, exhibited occasionally at the Free
-Society and the Royal Academy, beginning in 1782; his pictures
-were small, their subjects for the most part being from London and
-the Thames. It is said that his name does not appear after 1801, but
-a view by him, lately sold at Christie’s, was catalogued as representing
-Lord Nelson’s funeral procession on the river.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-By <span class="smcap">D. Turner</span>.
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by Mr. F. A. White.</i></span>
-<span class='pagenum'><a id='Page_49' href='#Page_49'>49</a></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">84</span><a id="Note_84"></a> ADELPHI TERRACE AND YORK WATER-GATE.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Oil picture. 9 by 5¾ in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-The same subject as the left-hand portion of <a href="#Note_83">No. 83</a>, excepting
-that it includes York Water-gate. Adelphi Terrace was never faced
-with red brick; the painter is trying to improve on Adam’s design.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-By <span class="smcap">D. Turner</span>.
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by the Fishmongers’ Company.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">85</span><a id="Note_85"></a> WESTMINSTER BRIDGE AND ABBEY.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Oil picture, 11½ by 7½ in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Taken from a wharf or shed on the Surrey bank.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-By <span class="smcap">D. Turner</span>.
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by Mr. A. Murray Smith.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">86</span><a id="Note_86"></a> VIEW DOWN THE RIVER FROM THE GARDEN OF OLD SOMERSET HOUSE.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Oil picture. 36 by 18 in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-In foreground to left is part of the garden of old Somerset
-House, with the stairs or landing-stage. St. Paul’s Cathedral and
-many church steeples are shown, also old London Bridge, houses
-still on it. In Southwark are St. Olave’s Church, Tooley Street,
-St. Saviour’s, now Southwark Cathedral, and on the extreme right
-an octagonal building which looks extremely like a Bankside theatre,
-although, according to existing evidence, they had all disappeared
-long before the date of this picture. The last apparently was the
-Hope, not known to have survived after the year 1682, when there
-was an advertisement in the “Loyal Protestant,” with reference to
-“the Hope on the Bankside, being His Majesty’s Bear Garden.”
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-By <span class="smcap">S. Scott</span> (about 1710-1772).
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by the Marquess of Sligo.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">87</span> <a id="Note_87"></a><a href="#Plate_36">THE PARADE AND WHITEHALL FROM ST. JAMES’S PARK.</a>
-<span class="smcap flright">Plate XXXVI.</span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Oil picture. 28 by 16½ in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-On what is called the Horse Guards Parade, cavalry and infantry
-are being exercised. To left is the Admiralty, built 1724-26, T. Ripley
-architect; it is surmounted by a semaphore telegraph and has a
-<span class='pagenum'><a id='Page_50' href='#Page_50'>50</a></span>
-walled garden. Near centre is the Guard-house with clock turret,
-an earlier building than the Horse Guards designed by Kent and
-finished by Vardy 1753. In background the Banqueting House and
-Holbein Gate. To right Kent’s Treasury (1733-34), and touching
-frame a building which has been the official home of the Chief Lord
-of the Treasury since 1735. It is only part of the present No. 10
-Downing Street, which has been altered and added to by Soane and
-others. See <a href="#Note_96">note on No. 96</a>.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-By <span class="smcap">S. Scott</span> (about 1710-1772).
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by the Marquess of Sligo.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">88</span> <a id="Note_88"></a><a href="#Plate_37">WHITEHALL FROM THE NORTH.</a>
-<span class="smcap flright">Plate XXXVII.</span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Oil picture. 28 by 16½ in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Chief building to left is the Banqueting House, designed by
-Inigo Jones and erected 1619-22, afterwards a royal chapel, now
-added to (with loss of symmetry) and used by the United Service
-Institution. The first English example of pure Palladian design,
-and still containing Rubens’s painted ceiling. Beyond it is wall of
-Privy Garden. Crossing road is the Holbein, or Whitehall, Gate just
-mentioned, of which there is an interesting engraving by Vertue in
-“Vetusta Monumenta,” 1725. On each side were four glazed terracotta
-medallions of fine Italian workmanship. It stood originally
-“thwart the high streete” from Charing Cross to Westminster, and
-was demolished to make room for Parliament Street in 1759. The
-material was moved to Windsor, the then Duke of Cumberland,
-ranger of the park and forest there, intending to re-erect it. A
-gleam of light shows entrance to the Horse Guards. House to right
-with pediment must be the present Paymaster General’s Office.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-By <span class="smcap">S. Scott</span> (about 1710-1772).
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by the Marquess of Sligo.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">89</span> <a id="Note_89"></a>WHITEHALL FROM ST. JAMES’S PARK.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Oil picture. 47½ by 29½ in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Portion of view shown in <a href="#Note_87">No. 87</a>, but dating from near the end
-of Charles II’s reign. It will presently be pointed out that <a href="#Note_96">No. 96</a>
-is a still earlier picture of almost the same subject, so to avoid
-<span class='pagenum'><a id='Page_51' href='#Page_51'>51</a></span>
-repetition this has not been reproduced. Here the Banqueting Hall
-is prominent; other important buildings are as follows: To extreme
-left in background a louvred structure is the Great Hall, Whitehall,
-more clearly visible in Wijck’s view from the river, <a href="#Note_91">No. 91</a>. Facing
-park we see the old Guard House as in No. 87. The upper portions
-of Holbein Gate-house and of a battlemented structure are also
-visible; for description of the latter and of the great staircase see <a href="#Note_96">note
-on No. 96</a>. A large brick building some distance to right preceded
-Kent’s Treasury, both occupying the site of Henry VIII’s Cockpit,
-which still remained when No. 96 was painted. Little is known about
-the brick building; it appears in views by Kip, 1710 and 1720, and
-in an illustration for J. T. Smith’s “Antiquities of Westminster,”
-from a picture resembling this. There are also slight sketches of it
-in vol. ii of Lond. Top. Society’s Records, illustrating a paper by
-the late Mr. Walter B. Spiers, Soane Curator, who made a special
-study of Whitehall. In foreground of our view, among bewigged
-and gaily-apparelled figures, a black woman and a black page are
-prominent.
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by Mary, Countess of Ilchester.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">90</span><a id="Note_90"></a> OLD LONDON BRIDGE IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY FROM SOUTHWARK.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Oil picture. 41 by 27½ in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-View of old London Bridge, of City of London, and part of
-Southwark, before the Great Fire. In foreground, beginning on west
-or left side, the following playhouses are shown in their order: the
-Swan, destroyed about 1633, the Hope or Bear Garden, and the
-second Globe. The turreted building below the Swan was the old
-Manor House of Paris Garden. In the reign of Charles I it got a
-bad reputation, and was called Holland’s Leaguer from a woman
-who occupied it. The next important building is the hall of the
-Bishop of Winchester’s house. Then St. Saviour’s, originally church
-of Priory of St. Mary Overy, and now Southwark Cathedral. Passing
-bridge, on right, is the church of St. Olave, Tooley Street, replaced
-by present structure (lately closed) in 1737-39. On Middlesex side,
-old St. Paul’s has lost its spire, fatally injured by lightning in 1561.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-There is no space to describe bridge in detail. Before removal of
-houses under Act of Parliament 1756, it was most picturesque, but
-<span class='pagenum'><a id='Page_52' href='#Page_52'>52</a></span>
-with its many arches, several blocked by mills and waterworks, it
-checked flow of water, hence freezing of Thames above bridge, frost
-fairs, and danger of passing through in boat, or “shooting the
-bridge.” On central pier, projecting to east, was chapel of St. Thomas-à-Becket,
-with crypt beneath. In foreground is Southwark gatehouse
-(afterwards rebuilt), with heads of traitors above parapet, a
-display originally over building farther north, destroyed in 1577.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-This picture is clearly not contemporary. It looks like eighteenth
-century work, founded on an earlier painting, or on such engraved
-views as Visscher’s (1616) and the small one in Howell’s “Londinopolis”
-(1657).
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by the Bank of England.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">91</span> <a id="Note_91"></a><a href="#Plate_38">WESTMINSTER FROM BELOW YORK WATER-GATE.</a>
-<span class="smcap flright">Plate XXXVIII.</span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Oil picture. 60 by 31½ in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Dates from soon after the Restoration. In the foreground to
-right is York Water-gate, in mid-distance is the Banqueting Hall.
-Next to that the louvred stone building is undoubtedly the great
-Hall, Whitehall, also visible in <a href="#Note_89">No. 89</a>. It was about 100 feet long
-by 45 feet. Here several of Shakespeare’s plays were acted before
-Queen Elizabeth; destroyed in fire of 1697, Horse Guards Avenue
-covers most of the site. Below Westminster Abbey, and projecting
-into river, is the public landing stage called Whitehall Stairs, with
-boats attached to it. The site of this is immediately east of the
-present Horse Guards Avenue. Beyond, but at first glance appearing
-to be part of same structure, are Privy Stairs, with covered passage.
-St. Margaret’s Church, Westminster Hall, and St. Stephen’s Chapel
-are grouped together. To extreme left is Lambeth Palace.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-The artist, Thomas Wijck, Wyck, or Van Wyck, was born at
-Beverwyck about 1616. He studied with his father, and in Italy, and
-about the time of the Restoration came to England, where he was
-much employed. He painted several other views of London. Died
-at Haarlem, 1677.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-By <span class="smcap">Thomas Wijck</span> (about 1616-1677).
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by Mr. E. C. Grenfell.</i></span>
-<span class='pagenum'><a id='Page_53' href='#Page_53'>53</a></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">92</span> <a id="Note_92"></a><a href="#Plate_39">WESTMINSTER FROM LAMBETH.</a>
-<span class="smcap flright">Plate XXXIX.</span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Oil picture. 35 by 20½ in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Westminster Abbey, St. Margaret’s church tower, Westminster
-Hall, and St. Stephen’s Chapel are prominent, the last foreshortened.
-The old bridge is already finished. In foreground the painter has
-introduced part of a tower of Lambeth Palace, much too near the
-bridge, but improving composition. Nets with large meshes, doubtless
-salmon nets, are hanging on the rails.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-By <span class="smcap">S. Scott</span> (?) (about 1710-1772).
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by Mr. P. Norman.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">93</span> <a id="Note_93"></a><a href="#Plate_40">THE OLD STOCKS MARKET.</a>
-<span class="smcap flright">Plate XL.</span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Oil picture. 50 by 37½ in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-The Stocks Market was established in 1282, “where some time
-had stood a pair of stocks for punishment of offenders.” It was for
-sale of meat and fish until the Great Fire, afterwards a market for fruit
-and vegetables. Of the equestrian statue here shown, Pennant in his
-“London” gives the following account: it was “erected in honour
-of Charles II by his most loyal subject Sir Robert Viner, lord mayor.
-Fortunately his lordship discovered one (made at Leghorn) of John
-Sobieski trampling on a Turk. The good Knight caused some
-alterations to be made, christened the Polish monarch by the name
-of Charles, and bestowed on the turbaned Turk that of Oliver Cromwell.”
-Horace Walpole says the statue “came over unfinished, and
-a head was added by Latham.” Stocks Market was removed in
-1737 to clear ground for the present Mansion House. The statue
-lay neglected until 1779, and was then given to Mr. Robert Vyner,
-descendant of the Lord Mayor. He set it up in Gautby Park,
-Lincolnshire, and in 1883 it migrated to Newby Hall, Ripon, the
-home of the last Mr. Robert Vyner, who died in 1915.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-The picture is pleasantly lighted by the gay costumes of those
-engaged in marketing. In background appear the tower and dome
-of church of St. Stephen, Walbrook, one of Wren’s masterpieces.
-There is a well-known print of Stocks Market from similar point of
-view.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Josef van Aken, who painted this, was born at Antwerp, and
-passed much of his life in England. He was much employed by
-<span class='pagenum'><a id='Page_54' href='#Page_54'>54</a></span>
-eminent landscape artists to paint the costumes of the figures in their
-pictures, in which he is said to have been very skilful. He died in
-London.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-By <span class="smcap">Josef van Aken</span> (1709-1749).
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by the Bank of England.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">94</span> <a id="Note_94"></a><a href="#Plate_41">RIVER VIEW FROM GARDEN OF OLD SOMERSET HOUSE.</a>
-<span class="smcap flright">Plate XLI.</span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Oil picture. 35½ by 23½ in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-In foreground to left part of the garden with trees and figures.
-The stone gateway with landing-stage, known as Somerset Stairs, is
-prominent. Besides St. Paul’s Cathedral and many church steeples,
-part of old London Bridge appears, houses still on it. This view
-should be compared with <a href="#Note_86">No. 86</a>, as the subjects are much alike,
-though here there is a stronger effect. Like <a href="#Note_69">No. 69</a>, this picture was
-ascribed to Scott, but after our plate had been printed, an engraving
-of it by E. Rooker, 1750, was found, with on it the words “Canaletti
-pinx<sup>t</sup>”; the attribution is therefore here changed.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-By <span class="smcap">Canaletto</span> (1697-1768).
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by Mr. F. A. White.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">95</span> <a id="Note_95"></a><a href="#Plate_42">OLD WESTMINSTER BRIDGE.</a>
-<span class="smcap flright">Plate XLII.</span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Oil picture. 59 by 37 in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-This picture is specially interesting as a pendant to <a href="#Note_91">No. 91</a>. It
-shows a similar view, but is painted from a point much higher up the
-river, and is more modern by eighty or ninety years. Observe the
-men fishing with nets, probably for salmon. As we have mentioned,
-when describing <a href="#Note_4">No. 4</a>, Westminster Bridge was opened in 1750. It
-was the second stone bridge built over the Thames at London.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-The present bridge dates from 1862.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-By <span class="smcap">S. Scott</span> (about 1710-1772).
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by Mr. E. C. Grenfell.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">96</span> <a id="Note_96"></a><a href="#Plate_43">WHITEHALL FROM ST. JAMES’S PARK.</a>
-<span class="smcap flright">Plate XLIII.</span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Oil picture. 60½ by 37 in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-This picture represents much the same subject as <a href="#Note_89">No. 89</a>, though
-it takes in less ground to the north or left, but from variations in
-buildings is evidently some years earlier. The Banqueting House
-<span class='pagenum'><a id='Page_55' href='#Page_55'>55</a></span>
-appears, and near it on right the Holbein Gate is partly visible.
-Figures are emerging from a great staircase which communicated
-with a passage over this gate. In an article by the late Sir Reginald
-Palgrave, K.C.B., we are told (on the authority of the Sydney
-papers) that Philip, 4th Earl of Pembroke, on the day of Charles I’s
-execution, “out of his chamber” (in the Cockpit part of Whitehall)
-“looked upon the King as he went up those stairs from the Park to
-the gallery on the way to the place of his death.” Hard by, to left
-of staircase, is a doorway to passage through the Tiltyard. To right
-of staircase is a long gallery dating from Henry VIII’s time. Farther
-to right is a two-storied building which appears in Fisher’s plan as
-part of the Duke of Albemarle’s lodgings. Vertue’s copy of this plan
-is dated 1680, but Mr. Spiers gave good reasons for believing that it
-was drawn before 1670.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-The battlemented structure behind, with buttresses, mullioned
-windows, and turrets at the angles (mentioned in <a href="#Note_89">note on No. 89</a>),
-was to north of passage from Whitehall to the Cockpit, now known
-as Treasury Passage. In the “Gentleman’s Magazine” for 1816 it
-is described as part of the palace built by Cardinal Wolsey, and
-other writers have called it “Wolsey’s Treasury.” Contemporary
-evidence, however, is lacking to prove that any part of Wolsey’s
-“York Place” stood west of the thoroughfare that led from Charing
-Cross, the land on the Park side having apparently been conveyed to
-Henry VIII by the Abbot of Westminster in 1532. The material of
-this important building was brick and stone. Its external character
-and the ground plan suggest a hall, but whatever its origin it was
-undoubtedly used as a tennis court by Henry VIII. Being perhaps
-of inconvenient shape for the later developments of the game, and
-Charles II having built himself a tennis court farther south, floors
-were inserted in 1664, and it became the Duke of Monmouth’s
-lodging. What remained of it in the early nineteenth century was
-finally swept away to make room for Soane’s Council Office as
-completed by Barry.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-The next building in front is the Tudor Cockpit, with its octagonal
-roof still intact. For years it had not served its original purpose,
-but gave the name to a group of lodgings in which it was evidently
-included. The Earl of Pembroke, as we have pointed out, was living
-<span class='pagenum'><a id='Page_56' href='#Page_56'>56</a></span>
-there at the time of the execution of Charles I, after which Oliver
-Cromwell took possession of these lodgings, and it was probably in
-the veritable Cockpit that music was performed during his protectorate.
-There also plays were acted both in the time of Charles I
-and after the Restoration. Just before that event the lodgings were
-assigned to George Monck, who became Duke of Albemarle, and in
-Fisher’s plan it is marked as part of his lodgings. As mentioned in
-describing <a href="#Note_89">No. 89</a>, between the dates of the two pictures this architectural
-relic was obliterated by a brick building, which in turn gave
-way to Kent’s Treasury. Until about 1806, the word Cockpit was
-applied to a famous but elusive political centre included in the
-Treasury and more or less on the site of Henry VIII’s building.
-Lord Welby thought that the style “Treasury Chambers Cockpit”
-was known much later. The passage from Whitehall to the Treasury
-is partly lighted on the north side by a large window with mullions
-and transom, and on the south there is a two-light window of similar
-date. Both are involved externally in Tudor brickwork. On the
-ground floor a Tudor doorway survives, and all these must have been
-in the casing of the original passage that led to the Cockpit. As
-mistakes are frequent on the subject we will add that “Cockpit
-Steps” leading from Birdcage Walk into Dartmouth Street have no
-historical connection with Whitehall. They adjoined a later Cockpit
-surmounted by a cupola, which is marked in a map belonging to
-Strype’s Stow 1720, and was taken down in 1816. There was also a
-“Royal Cockpit” in Tufton Street, Westminster, described in the
-“London Magazine,” November 1822, and in the “Every Night
-Book” as late as 1827, which was probably the last in London.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-To right of the Tudor Cockpit is a house with tiled roof and
-dormer windows, apparently that portion of the Prime Minister’s official
-residence adjoining the Treasury and facing the garden, for although
-much altered, the points of resemblance are strong. In vol. ii of
-the Lond. Top. Soc. “Record,” Mr. Spiers attributed the design of
-this building to Wren on account of a ground plan doubtless representing
-it, signed by him with the addition of the letters “S<sup>r</sup> G<sup>ll</sup>”
-and date 1677; but the present writer is of opinion that it already
-existed at the time, and, being on Crown land, that Wren merely
-signed the plan as Surveyor General. In the “Record” a plan by
-<span class='pagenum'><a id='Page_57' href='#Page_57'>57</a></span>
-Sir John Soane is also given, showing his additions and alterations
-made in 1825. That part of No. 10 containing the entrance from the
-roadway does not belong to the original structure, although they are
-linked together by passages. It forms one block with No. 11, and
-from the style of the pair they cannot have been built much before
-the middle of the eighteenth century, when they appear in views by
-J. Maurer, partly occupying the site of the building with gable and
-low tower, shown in our picture to the extreme right. On this subject
-the late Mr. C. Eyre Pascoe in his volume entitled “No. 10 Downing
-Street” was misinformed.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-In studying these old pictures it must always be borne in mind
-that artists attached small importance to rigid accuracy; while fairly
-correct as regards the main buildings they omitted and arranged
-with the object of making an agreeable pattern. The trees in
-<a href="#Note_89">Nos. 89</a> and 96 differ completely, and in the latter the head of the
-ornamental canal, formed soon after the Restoration, has been introduced
-out of its place, quite near to the Cockpit. By it are deer, and
-it is covered with waterfowl. On the bank is a copy in bronze of the
-Borghese statue of a gladiator, executed at Rome by Hubert Le
-Sœur, removed by Queen Anne to Hampton Court, and by George IV
-to Windsor. On the left King Charles II is taking a walk accompanied
-by various dogs and a crowd of courtiers. Near the buildings
-a detachment of soldiers in scarlet uniforms marches to the right.
-The colour carried at their head agrees with that mentioned by
-F. Sandwith, Lancaster Herald 1676-89, as the ensign of the
-Lieutenant-Colonel of the Coldstream Guards “from 1670 or thereabout
-to 1683.” According to his description the ensign was of “blue
-taffeta with a plain white cross, surmounted by a cross of crimson or
-a cross of St. George.” Unfortunately on the scale of our engraving
-neither the monarch nor this ensign are distinctly visible. There is
-an illustration of the scene in Pennant’s “London” from No. 96
-or a replica, and a larger one by S. Mazell. Examples of them are
-in the Crace Collection, British Museum.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Hendrik Danckerts, or Dankerts, the artist, was born at the
-Hague about 1630, studied in Italy, and after his return was invited
-to England by Charles II, who employed him to paint pictures of
-royal palaces and sea-ports. Walpole speaks of his working in connection
-<span class='pagenum'><a id='Page_58' href='#Page_58'>58</a></span>
-with Hollar. James II had various landscapes by him, and
-Samuel Pepys, who calls him “the great landscape painter,” mentions
-seeing him in 1668-69 and arranging for views of <i>Whitehall</i>, Hampton
-Court, Greenwich, and Windsor, to adorn his dining-room panels.
-Danckerts, who was a Roman Catholic, is said to have left England
-during the Popish Plot and to have died at Amsterdam soon afterwards.
-From what precedes we may be sure that the picture was
-painted between 1670 and about 1677, perhaps not much after the
-earlier date.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-By <span class="smcap">Hendrick Danckerts</span> (<i>c.</i> 1630-1678).
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by the Earl of Berkeley.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">97<i>a</i></span> SEARLE’S BOAT-HOUSE, STANGATE, LAMBETH.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Watercolour. 14 by 9¾ in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-The famous boat builders, of Eton and Oxford, had an establishment
-on the Surrey side, much frequented by Westminster schoolboys
-before the formation of the Embankment and the removal of
-St. Thomas’s Hospital from High Street, Southwark, to Stangate.
-It will be seen that the boat-house was just above Westminster Bridge;
-it was afterwards moved to a point higher up the river.
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by Sir E. Coates.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">97<i>b</i></span> BUILDINGS ADJOINING LAMBETH CHURCH.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Watercolour. 10 by 6¼ in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Shows picturesque but tumbledown buildings formerly along
-the riverside at Lambeth.
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by Sir E. Coates.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">98<i>a</i></span><a id="Note_98a"></a> ST. SAVIOUR’S CHURCH, SOUTHWARK.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Watercolour. 9¾ by 7 in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Originally the church of the Priory of St. Mary Overy, after the
-Reformation St. Saviour’s parish church, and now Southwark
-Cathedral. View of the old nave from the west end, shortly before it
-was replaced by an unsightly nave in 1838-9. This also has disappeared,
-being rebuilt from the designs of the late Sir Arthur
-Blomfield. The choir and tower were “restored” 1822-5, by George
-Gwilt.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-By <span class="smcap">F. Nash</span> (1782-1856).
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by Sir E. Coates.</i></span>
-<span class='pagenum'><a id='Page_59' href='#Page_59'>59</a></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">98<i>b</i></span> WEST END OF ST. SAVIOUR’S CHURCH, SOUTHWARK, FROM THE SOUTH.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Wash drawing in Indian ink. 6 by 9 in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Shows the entrance to Montagu Close, which appears also in <a href="#Note_98a">98<i>a</i></a>.
-It had been the precinct of Montagu House, taken down in a state of
-decay when the approaches of the present London Bridge were made.
-Here were the cloisters of the Priory. The original Montagu House
-was built by Sir Anthony Brown, afterwards Viscount Montagu.
-The small sepia drawing and the print from it give the other side of
-the entrance.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-J. C. Buckler, who did the larger drawing, belonged to a family
-of architects, and was a good topographical draughtsman. Many
-Southwark views by him are in the Guildhall Library.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-By <span class="smcap">J. C. Buckler</span>, 1827 (1770-1851).
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by Sir E. Coates.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">99<i>a</i></span> THREE CRANES WHARF.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Wash drawing in Indian ink. 10 by 8¾ in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-The name was derived originally from “three strong cranes of
-timber placed on the Vintry wharf by the Thames side to crane up
-wines there.” They are shown in Visscher’s View (1616). Three
-Cranes Wharf, below Southwark Bridge, and to south of Three
-Cranes Lane, appears to be first mentioned in Rocque’s map, 1746.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-By <span class="smcap">G. Shepherd</span>, 1811.
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by Sir E. Coates.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">99<i>b</i></span> THREE CRANES WHARF.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Watercolour. 8 by 5½ in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-From rather a more western point of view than the wash
-drawing. Mr. Gardner has ascribed this to “Tompkins.” It must
-be the work of Charles Tomkins, a topographical artist to whom we
-have already referred.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-By <span class="smcap">C. Tomkins</span> (1757-1810).
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by Sir E. Coates.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">100<i>a</i></span> UNDERCROFT OF CHAPEL OF ELY HOUSE, HOLBORN.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Wash drawing. 4 by 5¼ in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-This curious crypt of the Chapel dedicated to St. Etheldreda,
-Ely Place, still remains.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-By <span class="smcap">J. Carter</span>, 1776 (1748-1817).
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by Sir E. Coates.</i></span>
-<span class='pagenum'><a id='Page_60' href='#Page_60'>60</a></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">100<i>b</i></span> <a href="#Plate_44">ELY PLACE, HOLBORN.</a>
-<span class="smcap flright">Plate XLIV.</span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Pen and Indian ink, with a little colour. 15 by 9½ in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Ely Place was the town mansion of the Bishops of Ely, dating
-apparently from the time of John de Kirkeby, Bishop, who died 1290.
-John of Gaunt died here. Sir Christopher Hatton got hold of part
-of the garden, and built himself a house there, hence Hatton Garden.
-In 1772 the see transferred to the Crown all its rights to Ely Place, a
-house being built as an episcopal residence, now 37 Dover Street,
-Piccadilly. The buildings, excepting St. Etheldreda’s Chapel, were
-afterwards taken down. The Chapel, a fine piece of fourteenth-century
-architecture, belongs to Roman Catholics.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-The view is from the west. To epitomise John Carter’s words:
-To right is the Chapel, now much altered and restored; in centre,
-outside of cloister; to left the great Hall, at the end part of the
-kitchen, and above it the tower of St. Andrew’s Church.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-By <span class="smcap">J. Carter</span>, 1776 (1748-1817).
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by Sir E. Coates.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">101</span><a id="Note_101"></a> SCREEN FORMERLY IN CHAPEL OF ST. ANDREW, IN
-NORTH TRANSEPT OF WESTMINSTER ABBEY.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Indian ink with shields of arms coloured. 17¾ by 20½ in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-This screen replaced one made in the time of Edward III, an
-illustration of the cresting of which appears in Professor Lethaby’s
-“Westminster Abbey and the King’s Craftsmen” (1906). Trickings
-of the coats of arms are given in a Lansdowne manuscript, and they
-have been identified by Mr. Lethaby from a manuscript in his own
-possession, once belonging to H. Keepe, of the Inner Temple, who
-died in 1688. An inscription under the drawing states that the screen
-was “removed for the Coronation early in the eighteenth century.”
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Written on the drawing is “Mar: 1722.”
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by Sir E. Coates.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">102</span><a id="Note_102"></a> THE FIRST WINNER OF DOGGETT’S COAT AND BADGE
-IN HIS WHERRY.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Oil picture. 42 by 33 in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-The annual race for these trophies began on 1 August 1716, the
-day of the accession of George I. Strange to say, the name of the
-<span class='pagenum'><a id='Page_61' href='#Page_61'>61</a></span>
-first winner is doubtful, but this portrait is contemporary. He is
-seated in his roomy craft; on the river bank are buildings which
-cannot be identified.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Doggett, who provided funds for this event, was a well-known
-actor, and a keen Hanoverian. The race was originally rowed from
-the Old Swan, London Bridge, to the White Swan, Chelsea. One of
-the most famous winners was John Broughton, 1730, who was also
-for many years champion boxer of England.
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by the Watermans’ Company.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">103</span><a id="Note_103"></a> LUDGATE HILL FROM THE WEST.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Oil picture. 31 by 39 in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-On left the church of St. Martin, Ludgate, designed by Sir
-Christopher Wren, its spire contrasting with the dome of St. Paul’s.
-In mid-distance, before the façade of the cathedral, is a crowd
-surrounding a State coach. Ludgate was immediately west of
-St. Martin’s.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-William Marlow, who painted this picture, which has been engraved,
-was born in Southwark, 1740. He studied under Samuel
-Scott and at the St. Martin’s Lane Academy, travelled in France and
-Italy, and achieved some success as a landscape painter, exhibiting at
-the Royal Academy and elsewhere, views of London being perhaps
-his most successful work. Horace Walpole, in his note on Scott,
-praises him highly. He died at Twickenham in 1813.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-By <span class="smcap">W. Marlow</span>, 1792 (1740-1813).
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by the Governor and Directors of the Bank of England.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">104</span> <a id="Note_104"></a><a href="#Plate_45">RANELAGH.</a>
-<span class="smcap flright">Plate XLV.</span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Oil picture. 56 by 36 in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-The following description of this interesting picture is culled
-from the “Gentleman’s Magazine,” September 1836: “It represents
-Ranelagh Grove, leading to Lord Ranelagh’s house and grounds,
-Chelsea, so celebrated afterwards as a place of fashionable resort. In
-the foreground are figures setting on two dogs to fight, painted in a
-style which reminds one of the 'Stages of Cruelty.’ Behind is a
-chariot richly ornamented with carving and gilding in the taste of
-the time, containing a lady and gentleman drawn by two white
-<span class='pagenum'><a id='Page_62' href='#Page_62'>62</a></span>
-horses. Another carriage is seen on the right proceeding towards
-Chelsea through a lane lined with high trees. On the same side of
-the picture is a village fair, with a number of figures, among which
-may be recognized the fire-eater, seen in Hogarth’s 'Southwark
-Fair.’ On the left a man strongly resembling Colonel Charteris, is
-conducting a young lady attended by two maids, near whom is the
-puzzling inscription: <span class="smcap">kee pont hiss ide</span> [keep on this side]. The
-distance is a perspective view of a long row of trees with houses on
-each side, to the present day called Ranelagh Grove.”
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Richard Jones, first Earl of Ranelagh, built the house at Chelsea
-known by his name in 1689-90, on land granted by lease from the
-Crown. He had here a famous garden. The property was sold in
-1733, and soon afterwards it became a place of entertainment.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Has been ascribed to <span class="smcap">Hogarth</span>; perhaps by <span class="smcap">F. Hayman</span> (1708-1776).
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by Mary, Countess of Ilchester.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">105</span><a id="Note_105"></a> A WEDDING FESTIVAL, BILLINGSGATE MARKET.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Oil picture. 29 by 23½ in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-This painting represents a bit of old Billingsgate. In the distance
-are houses on the Surrey side of the river. The wedding party are
-being entertained by music, their costume belongs to the last quarter
-of the eighteenth century. Above is a sign of a woman’s head.
-Billingsgate was rebuilt in 1850, and again rebuilt and enlarged
-1874-77.
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by the Fishmongers’ Company.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">106</span><a id="Note_106"></a> THE ROTUNDA, RANELAGH.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Oil picture. 66 by 35 in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-In 1741 the Rotunda was built on the Ranelagh estate, being
-first opened with a public breakfast 5 April 1742. It soon became a
-most fashionable place of public resort, visited too by the leading
-literary men, until the early part of the nineteenth century. Allusions
-to it would fill a volume. On 30 September 1805 an order was made
-for taking down Ranelagh House and the Rotunda, and the garden,
-together with the sites of these buildings, was not long afterwards
-added to the Royal Hospital grounds. Part of the Hospital may be
-seen on spectator’s right; on the left is a glimpse of the river.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-By <span class="smcap">Hayman</span> and <span class="smcap">Hogarth</span>.
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by the Earl of Ilchester.</i></span>
-<span class='pagenum'><a id='Page_63' href='#Page_63'>63</a></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">107</span> <a id="Note_107"></a><a href="#Plate_46">OLD LONDON BRIDGE AND NEW LONDON BRIDGE
-FROM SOUTHWARK.</a>
-<span class="smcap flright">Plate XLVI.</span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Watercolour. 26½ by 9¼ in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-This painting, in which body colour has been used for the high
-lights, is of much value as a topographical record. It is signed and
-dated, and shows that old London Bridge was still being used for
-traffic as late as the year 1830, when the new bridge was nearly
-finished. It also gives their relative positions, and the nature of the
-projecting starlings which had been added to break the rush of water
-on the piers. At the end of new London Bridge is the church of
-St. Michael, Crooked Lane, pulled down soon afterwards. The
-first stone of the new bridge was laid 15 June 1825, and it was
-publicly opened by William IV and Queen Adelaide 1 August
-1831.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-George Belton Moore, the painter of it, often exhibited at the
-Royal Academy, and taught drawing at the Military Academy,
-Woolwich, and at University College. He also wrote on perspective,
-and on the “Principles of Colour applied to Decorative Art.”
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-By <span class="smcap">G. B. Moore</span>, 1830 (1806-1875).
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by Sir E. Coates.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">108</span><a id="Note_108"></a> VIEW OF LONDON FROM HIGH GROUND BEYOND
-ST. GEORGE’S FIELDS.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Watercolour. 28 by 19 in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Since this was painted, all south London, with its immediate
-neighbourhood, has been so thickly covered with buildings that the
-artist’s exact point of view cannot be made out. The substantial
-house in the foreground was probably the suburban home of some
-well-to-do merchant. The nearest church, evidently on the Surrey
-side of the river (the tower of which appears a short distance to the
-right of St. Paul’s), must be Christchurch, near the west side of the
-Blackfriars Road. Christchurch parish was created by Act of Parliament
-in 1671, and covers the same ground as the still existing Manor
-of Paris Garden. Inscription as follows: <span class="smcap">Will<sup>m</sup> Capon Pinx<sup>t</sup>. 1804.
-Westminster.</span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-By <span class="smcap">W. Capon</span> (1757-1827).
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by Sir E. Coates.</i></span>
-<span class='pagenum'><a id='Page_64' href='#Page_64'>64</a></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">109</span><a id="Note_109"></a> LONDON FROM WHITEHALL.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Watercolour. 21¼ by 15 in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-View looking down river from garden of the Earl of Fife’s house
-at Whitehall. The distance is somewhat idealized. To left is Somerset
-House. Waterloo Bridge is not yet built, but near its site at south
-end is one of the shot towers, still standing though put to other uses.
-The bridge shown is old Blackfriars, opened 1769, as we have said
-elsewhere.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-John Claude Nattes, painter of this and of the next watercolour,
-numbered <a href="#Note_110">110</a>, was an industrious topographical artist. He exhibited
-occasionally at the Royal Academy and was one of the foundation
-members of the Old Watercolour Society, but was expelled for exhibiting
-what was held to be not his own work. With his latest
-breath he condemned the action of the Society. He published
-several topographical volumes illustrated by himself, and drew for
-other publications.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-By <span class="smcap">J. C. Nattes</span>, 1801 (1765-1822).
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by the Rev. L. Gilbertson.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">110</span><a id="Note_110"></a> LONDON FROM THE TEMPLE GARDENS.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Watercolour. 21 by 14¾ in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-View looking up river apparently from the Temple Gardens. To
-left is the shot tower shown in last view; in distance Westminster
-Abbey, other landmarks being Somerset House, Adelphi Terrace,
-and York Water-tower.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-By <span class="smcap">J. C. Nattes</span>, 1801 (1765-1822).
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by the Rev. L. Gilbertson.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">111</span> <a id="Note_111"></a><a href="#Plate_47">ST. PAUL’S CATHEDRAL FROM ST. MARTIN’S-LE-GRAND.</a>
-<span class="flright">Plate XLVII.</span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Watercolour. 14¾ by 19 in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-This view was engraved by J. Baily and published by J. Girtin
-in 1819.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-By <span class="smcap">T. Girtin</span> (1773-1802).
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by Sir Walter Prideaux.</i></span>
-<span class='pagenum'><a id='Page_65' href='#Page_65'>65</a></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">112</span> <a id="Note_112"></a><a href="#Plate_48">OLD WESTMINSTER.</a>
-<span class="smcap flright">Plate XLVIII.</span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Watercolour. 14¾ by 10 in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-An unfinished sketch on sugar paper. Old houses long ago
-cleared away, Westminster Abbey in background.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-By <span class="smcap">D. Cox</span> (1783-1859).
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by the Birmingham Art Gallery.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">113</span><a id="Note_113"></a> BUCKINGHAM HOUSE FROM THE GREEN PARK.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Watercolour. 17 by 8½ in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-This is unlike any other painting by David Cox known to the
-present writer, but it comes from an undeniable source, and is interesting
-as a topographical record. It represents, not Kensington
-Palace as stated on the frame, but Buckingham House, the end of
-the Mall, and road to Constitution Hill (see Nos. <a href="#Note_48a">48<i>a</i></a> and <a href="#Note_68">68</a>), and
-the date shows that it was painted just before the destruction or
-complete alteration of the building.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-By <span class="smcap">D. Cox</span>, 1825 (1783-1859).
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by the Birmingham Art Gallery.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">114</span><a id="Note_114"></a> THE TEMPLE STAIRS.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Watercolour. 23½ by 15¼ in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-The above is the title given to this painting by Mr. Gardner; the
-stairs are not very apparent. The view shows part of the Temple,
-and some picturesque old riverside buildings to the east of it. In the
-background are the spires of St. Bride’s and St. Martin’s, Ludgate.
-It is undated.
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by Sir E. Coates.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="post">
-<span class="medsm">115</span><a id="Note_115"></a> MONUMENT TO MARTIN BOND IN ST. HELEN’S
-CHURCH, BISHOPSGATE.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Watercolour. 10¼ by 13½ in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Shows him as Captain of Trained Bands seated in his tent at
-Tilbury camp, 1588. Two sentinels guard the entrance, and a page
-holds his horse. There is a similar monument (1625) to Sir Charles
-<span class='pagenum'><a id='Page_66' href='#Page_66'>66</a></span>
-Montagu in Barking Church, Essex. Both have special interest on
-account of the military costumes. Martin Bond died in 1643 at the
-age of eighty-five. It will be seen on the last page of catalogue that
-he gave to St. Bartholomew’s Hospital the pewter inkstand here
-exhibited.
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by Mr. P. Norman.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter iw004">
- <img src="images/i-066.png" width="140" height="97" alt="" /></div>
-
-<span class='pagenum'><a id='Page_67' href='#Page_67'>67</a></span>
-</div>
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<h2>
-FURNITURE AND OTHER
-OBJECTS OF ART
-</h2>
-
-<div class="figcenter iw004">
- <img src="images/i-067.png" width="85" height="32" alt="" /></div>
-
-<p>
-The furniture in this exhibition lent by the Secretary of State for
-India, the Worshipful Companies of Carpenters, Stationers and
-Clothworkers, and the Master of the Charterhouse, has been chosen as a
-fitting accompaniment to the drawings and paintings of Old London.
-They form a representative selection of such relics of London’s history as
-have survived the vicissitudes of Time. A certain individuality stamps the
-furniture. It was made for a definite reason, had a serious and official
-purpose to fulfil, and thus differs in some respects from the contemporary
-furniture of the home, in the making of which comfort, luxury, elegance
-and other domestic requirements had to be considered. As would be
-expected, therefore, the furniture from the India Office, from the City
-Halls and from the Charterhouse, is essentially severe in character,
-“masculine and unaffected,” and thoroughly sound both in design and
-workmanship.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-The largest and most important collection is that from the Secretary
-of State for India. The India Office is fortunate in possessing a considerable
-number of fine pieces of English furniture of the eighteenth
-century. Most of these were transferred in the nineteenth century from
-the “Old India House” in Leadenhall Street at the time when the India
-Office absorbed the business of the East India Company. These historical
-events are discussed in full detail in “Records of the Honourable East
-India Company,” by Sir George Birdwood and William Foster.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-A variety of interesting pieces have been lent by the Worshipful
-<span class='pagenum'><a id='Page_68' href='#Page_68'>68</a></span>
-Companies of Carpenters, Stationers and Clothworkers. In the course
-of their history the City Companies have suffered many misfortunes. Of
-these the most disastrous was the Great Fire of 1666, which wrought
-havoc with their Halls and historic possessions. Most of the Halls were
-destroyed or suffered damage. Many were rebuilt under the influence of
-Sir Christopher Wren and his successors, but in most cases have been
-reconstructed in the nineteenth century. Fortunately, some of the panelling,
-carvings and furniture have been preserved and incorporated in the
-new buildings. The octagonal table in this exhibition, lent by the
-Carpenters’ Company, is one of the few existing pieces earlier in date than
-the Great Fire.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-From the Charterhouse a few good pieces of English furniture have
-been obtained. First a Carthusian monastery, afterwards a nobleman’s
-palace, and lastly a Pensioners’ Hospital, the Charterhouse still shows
-records of the different phases of its romantic history. The splendid
-Elizabethan staircase and some of the panelling belong to the period
-when the Duke of Norfolk occupied the building as a residence. Other
-furniture and decoration commemorates the foundation of the hospital by
-Thomas Sutton, a wealthy trader and philanthropist; worthy of special
-mention is the small communion table in the chapel, bearing his arms
-and a mutilated date (16—), perhaps the most distinguished piece of
-furniture of its period which the country possesses. Unfortunately, it has
-not been possible to secure this table for the present exhibition.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-Much of the furniture, here exhibited, was lent to the exhibition at
-Bethnal Green Museum organized by the Department of Science and
-Art in 1896.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-<span class="flright">O. B.</span>
-</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter post iw004">
- <img src="images/i-068b.png" width="85" height="26" alt="" /></div>
-
-<span class='pagenum'><a id='Page_69' href='#Page_69'>69</a></span>
-</div>
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<h3>
-<i>Near the Alcove</i>
-</h3>
-
-<p class="phanging">
-<span class="smcap">Arm-chair</span>, walnut wood, carved with the head of Neptune and acanthus
-foliage, with front legs in the form of dolphins: upholstered in
-red velvet, embroidered on the back in coloured silks and silver
-thread with the arms of the East India Company, 1698 (ar. a
-cross gu. in the dexter chief quarter an escutcheon of the arms
-of France and England, quarterly, the shield ornamented and
-regally crowned or. <i>Crest</i>: a lion ramp. guard. or, supporting
-between the fore paws a regal crown ppr. <i>Supporters</i>: two lions
-ramp. guard. or, each supporting a banner erect ar. charged with
-a cross gu. <i>Motto</i>: <span class="smcap">auspicio regis et senatus angliæ</span>).
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-In the “Old India House” this chair was the seat of the
-Chairman when presiding over the Court of Directors; it is shown
-in T. H. Shepherd’s drawing in this exhibition, <a href="#Note_66">No. 66</a>. At the
-India Office it has been used by each successive Secretary of State
-for India in Council.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat post">
-Height, 4 ft. 11½ in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat post">
-Middle of the XVIIIth century.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by the Secretary of State for India.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<h3>
-<i>On either side of the Alcove</i>
-</h3>
-
-<p class="phanging">
-<span class="smcap">Clock</span>, with circular dial, inscribed <span class="smcap">Ayns<sup>th</sup> Thwaites London</span>, in case of
-gilt brass, supported on pedestal of mahogany and other woods,
-carved on the frieze with a demi-figure and scrolled foliage.
-</p>
-
-<p class="phanging">
-<span class="smcap">Instrument</span> (companion to above) showing sidereal time, the day of the
-week, month of the year, phases of the moon, direction of the
-wind and the weather: inscribed <span class="smcap">Ayns<sup>th</sup> Thwaites Clerkenwell
-London</span>.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-The clock was brought from the “Old India House” in
-Leadenhall Street. At the time the companion piece was lost sight
-of, but years afterwards was found on the continent by Mr. Bertram
-Currie, who purchased it and gave it back to the India Office
-(see “Records of the Honourable East India Company”).
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat post">
-Height (of each), 6 ft. 11½ in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat post">
-Date, 1760-1770.
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by the Secretary of State for India.</i></span>
-<span class='pagenum'><a id='Page_70' href='#Page_70'>70</a></span>
-</p>
-
-<h3>
-<i>Near the Alcove</i>
-</h3>
-
-<p class="phanging">
-<span class="smcap">Arm-chair</span>, walnut wood, the arms carved with masks and foliage, the
-legs ending in paw feet and carved with negro masks and leafage:
-upholstered in red velvet embroidered on the back with the crest of
-the East India Company; it is shown in <a href="#Note_66">No. 66</a>.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat post">Height, 4 ft. 9½ in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat post">
-First half of the XVIIIth century.
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by the Secretary of State for India.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<h3>
-<i>Against the East Wall</i>
-</h3>
-
-<p class="phanging">
-<span class="smcap">Pair of Chairs</span>, mahogany, with “ladder” backs, and seats covered with
-red leather.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat post">Height (of each), 3 ft. ½ in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat post">
-Third quarter of the XVIIIth century.
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by the Secretary of State for India.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<h3>
-<i>Against the West Wall</i>
-</h3>
-
-<p class="phanging">
-<span class="smcap">Arm-chair</span>, mahogany, with shield-shaped back and seat covered with
-red leather.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat post">
-Style of Hepplewhite.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat post">Height, 3 ft. 3½ in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat post">
-Last quarter of the XVIIIth century.
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by the Secretary of State for India.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="phanging">
-<span class="smcap">Arm-chair</span>, mahogany, the upper rail of the back carved with the crest of
-the East India Company within a circular medallion.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat post">Height, 2 ft. 8½ in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat post">
-Early XIXth century.
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by the Secretary of State for India.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="phanging">
-<span class="smcap">Arm-chair</span>, mahogany, the upper rail of the back surmounted by a
-lunette carved with the crest of the East India Company.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat post">Height, 3 ft. 1⅜ in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat post">
-Early XIXth century.
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by the Secretary of State for India.</i></span>
-<span class='pagenum'><a id='Page_71' href='#Page_71'>71</a></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="phanging">
-<span class="smcap">Arm-chair</span>, mahogany, with square back having three vertical rails, and
-seat covered with red leather.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat post">Height, 3 ft.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat post">
-Last quarter of the XVIIIth century.
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by the Secretary of State for India.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<h3>
-<i>In the Centre of the Gallery</i>
-</h3>
-
-<p class="phanging">
-<span class="smcap">Table</span>, oak, composed of octagonal top supported on eight baluster legs
-joined by arches below the top; the spandrels are carved with the
-initials R. W. (Richard Wyatt, Master); G. I. (G. Isack, Warden);
-I. R. (J. Reeve, Warden); and W. W. (W. Willson, Warden),
-and the date 1606.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat post">Height, 2 ft. 10 in. Width of top, 3 ft. 4¼ in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat post">
-Dated 1606.
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by the Worshipful Company of Carpenters.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<h3>
-<i>On the South Wall</i>
-</h3>
-
-<p class="phanging">
-<span class="smcap">Sword Rest</span>, oak, carved, painted and gilt with the Royal Arms, the
-Arms of the City of London, of Sir Francis Chaplin, Bart. (Master,
-1668; Lord Mayor of London, 1677), and of the Clothworkers’
-Company.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat post">Height, 6 ft. 4½ in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat post">
-Dated 1677 (the painting and gilding renewed).
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by the Worshipful Company of Clothworkers.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<h3>
-<i>In the Alcove</i>
-</h3>
-
-<p class="phanging">
-<span class="smcap">Arm-chair</span>, mahogany, with solid vase-shaped splat and seat covered
-with leather.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat post">Height, 3 ft. 5½ in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat post">
-First half of the XVIIIth century.
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by the Worshipful Company of Clothworkers.</i></span>
-<span class='pagenum'><a id='Page_72' href='#Page_72'>72</a></span>
-</p>
-
-<h3>
-<i>Near the South Wall</i>
-</h3>
-
-<p class="phanging">
-<span class="smcap">Table</span>, oak, with plain column legs.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat post">
-Length, 6 ft. 8½ in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat post">
-In the style of the XVIIth century.
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by the Worshipful Company of Stationers.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<h3>
-<i>Against the East Wall</i>
-</h3>
-
-<p class="phanging">
-<span class="smcap">Arm-chair</span> and <span class="smcap">Chair</span>, mahogany, with pierced splats, and seats covered
-with horsehair.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat post">Height (arm-chair), 3 ft. 8½ in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat post">Height (chair), 3 ft. 2½ in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat post">
-Middle of the XVIIIth century.
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by the Worshipful Company of Stationers.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="phanging">
-<span class="smcap">Card-Table</span>, rosewood, with hinged top inlaid with floral designs in
-mother-of-pearl.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat post">Height, 2 ft.; top, 2 ft. 8¼ in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat post">
-Early XVIIIth century (with Chinese inlay).
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by the Worshipful Company of Stationers.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="phanging">
-<span class="smcap">Arm-chair</span> and <span class="smcap">Two Chairs</span>, mahogany, each with pierced splat and
-leaf carving; seats covered with horsehair.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat post">Height (arm-chair), 3 ft. 2 in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat post">Height (chair), 3 ft. 1 in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat post">
-Third quarter of the XVIIIth century.
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by the Master of the Charterhouse.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<h3>
-<i>Near the Octagonal Table</i>
-</h3>
-
-<p class="phanging">
-<span class="smcap">Pair of Stools</span>, of oak.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat post">Height, 1 ft. 8 in., and 1 ft. 10½ in.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat post">
-XVIth century.
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by the Master of the Charterhouse.</i></span>
-<span class='pagenum'><a id='Page_73' href='#Page_73'>73</a></span>
-</p>
-
-<h3>
-<i>Near the South Wall</i>
-</h3>
-
-<p class="phanging">
-<span class="smcap">Desk</span>, mahogany, with hinged slope for writing and drawing in upper
-part, the stand fitted with a drawer supported on two central legs.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat post">Height, 4 ft. Width, 3 ft.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat post">
-End of the XVIIIth century.
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by the Master of the Charterhouse.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<h3>
-<i>On the Long Table</i>
-</h3>
-
-<p class="phanging">
-<span class="smcap">Vase</span>, “crater” shaped, with two handles. On each side are painted the
-arms of the East India Company, with a rose spray below: the
-ground is pink, and all mouldings are heavily gilt. Mark
-impressed on the base, F B B under a crown (Flight, Barr and
-Barr, Worcester, 1813-40).
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat post">
-English, XIXth century.
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by Mr. Herbert Allen.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="phanging">
-<span class="smcap">Two “Nanking” Dishes.</span> Oval blue-and-white dishes, forming part of
-a dinner service, each piece of which bears the crest of the Merchant
-Taylors’ Company, viz.: a lamb, bearing on its shoulder a
-banner, charged with a cross.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat post">
-Chinese, XVIIIth century.
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by the Worshipful Company of Merchant Taylors.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<h3>
-<i>On the Desk</i>
-</h3>
-
-<p class="phanging">
-<i>The Master’s Bell of the Haberdashers’ Company.</i> White metal
-table-bell, with decorations of an armorial character between two
-bands of inscriptions: “<span class="smcap">lof god van al</span>” and “<span class="smcap">me fecit johannes
-a fine a<sup>O</sup> 1549</span>.” Johannes A Fine of Malines is well known as a
-maker of <i>clochettes</i>, of which some forty are recorded as bearing
-his name.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat post">
-Flemish, XVIth century.
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by the Worshipful Company of Haberdashers.</i></span>
-<span class='pagenum'><a id='Page_74' href='#Page_74'>74</a></span>
-</p>
-
-<h3>
-<i>On the Mantelpiece</i>
-</h3>
-
-<p class="phanging">
-<span class="smcap">Pair of Brass Candlesticks</span>, shaped like Corinthian columns.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat post">
-English, early XIXth century.
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by the Secretary of State for India.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<p class="phanging">
-<span class="smcap">Timepiece</span> in mahogany, lancet-shaped case, the dial inscribed: “<span class="smcap">thwaites
-and reed</span>.”
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat post">
-About 1820.
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by the Secretary of State for India.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<h3>
-<i>On the Octagonal Table</i>
-</h3>
-
-<p class="phanging">
-<span class="smcap">Pewter Inkstand.</span> The steep-pitched lid is inscribed “The guifte of
-Mr. Martin Bonnde,” while the flat top bears the arms of the
-donor and the date 1619. The inkstand is stamped T L in a
-beaded circle, and with two fleur-de-lys.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat">
-Mr. Martin Bond was a member of the well-known family
-which owned Crosby Place; he was a Captain of Trained Bands,
-and was Treasurer of the House of the Poor, commonly known as
-St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, from 1620 to 1642.
-</p>
-
-<p class="cat post">
-English, XVIIth century.
-<span class="flright"><i>Lent by the Treasurer and Almoners of St. Bartholomew’s
-Hospital.</i></span>
-</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter iw004">
- <img src="images/i-074.png" width="150" height="87" alt="" /></div>
-</div>
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<div class="figcenter iw004">
- <img src="images/i-075.png" width="150" height="248" alt="" /></div>
-
-<p class="center sm">LONDON: PRINTED AT THE CHISWICK PRESS
-<br />
-TOOKS COURT, CHANCERY LANE.
-</p>
-
-</div>
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<div class="figcenter" style="max-width: 38em;">
- <a id="Plate_1" href="#Plate_1"></a>
- <br />
- <img src="images/i-079.jpg" width="1591" height="1052" alt="" />
- <p class="caption">1. OLD LONDON BRIDGE<br />
- <span class="sm">G. YATES, 1826</span><br />
- <span class="sm">Plate I</span></p>
-</div>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="max-width: 35em;">
- <a id='Plate_2' href='#Plate_2'></a>
- <br />
- <img src="images/i-081.jpg" width="1075" height="725" alt="" />
- <p class="caption">3. BOLINGBROKE HOUSE, BATTERSEA<br />
- <span class="sm">ARTIST UNKNOWN, <i>c.</i> 1800</span><br />
- <span class="sm">Plate II</span></p>
-</div>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="max-width: 38em;">
- <a id='Plate_3' href='#Plate_3'></a>
- <br />
- <img src="images/i-085.jpg" width="1545" height="720" alt="" />
- <p class="caption">4. OLD WESTMINSTER BRIDGE<br />
- <span class="sm">CANALETTO, <i>c.</i> 1747 (1677-1768)</span><br />
- <span class="sm">Plate III</span></p>
-</div>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="max-width: 38em;">
- <a id='Plate_4' href='#Plate_4'></a>
- <br />
- <img src="images/i-089.jpg" width="1590" height="590" alt="" />
- <p class="caption">6. VIEW DOWN RIVER FROM WESTMINSTER<br />
- <span class="sm">W. HOLLAR (1607-1677)</span><br />
- <span class="sm">Plate IV</span></p>
-</div>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="max-width: 38em;">
- <a id='Plate_5' href='#Plate_5'></a>
- <br />
- <img src="images/i-093.jpg" width="1553" height="872" alt="" />
- <p class="caption">8. WESTMINSTER BRIDGE AND ABBEY<br />
- <span class="sm">CANALETTO, <i>c.</i> 1747 (1677-1768)</span><br />
- <span class="sm">Plate V</span></p>
-</div>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="max-width: 38em;">
- <a id='Plate_6' href='#Plate_6'></a>
- <br />
- <img src="images/i-097.jpg" width="954" height="590" alt="" />
- <p class="caption">9. WESTMINSTER ABBEY, SOUTH VIEW FROM RIVER<br />
- <span class="sm">W. HOLLAR (1607-1677)</span><br />
- <span class="sm">Plate VI</span></p>
-</div>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="max-width: 38em;">
- <a id='Plate_7' href='#Plate_7'></a>
- <br />
- <img src="images/i-101.jpg" width="1585" height="858" alt="" />
- <p class="caption">11. VIEW UP RIVER TO WESTMINSTER<br />
- <span class="sm">CANALETTO, <i>c.</i> 1747 (1697-1768)</span><br />
- <span class="sm">Plate VII</span></p>
-</div>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="max-width: 38em;">
- <a id='Plate_8' href='#Plate_8'></a>
- <br />
- <img src="images/i-105.jpg" width="1567" height="943" alt="" />
- <p class="caption">12. OLD WESTMINSTER BRIDGE<br />
- <span class="sm">CANALETTO, <i>c.</i> 1748 (1697-1768)</span><br />
- <span class="sm">Plate VIII</span></p>
-</div>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="max-width: 28em;">
- <a id='Plate_9' href='#Plate_9'></a>
- <br />
- <img src="images/i-109.jpg" width="1139" height="1050" alt="" />
- <p class="caption">14. PIAZZA, COVENT GARDEN<br />
- <span class="sm">T. SANDBY, R.A. (1721-1798)</span><br />
- <span class="sm">Plate IX</span></p>
-</div>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="max-width: 38em;">
- <a id='Plate_10' href='#Plate_10'></a>
- <br />
- <img src="images/i-113.jpg" width="1461" height="1019" alt="" />
- <p class="caption">16. OLD SOMERSET HOUSE AND GARDEN<br />
- <span class="sm">T. SANDBY, R. A. (1721-1798)</span><br />
- <span class="sm">Plate X</span></p>
-</div>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="max-width: 38em;">
- <a id='Plate_11' href='#Plate_11'></a>
- <br />
- <img src="images/i-117.jpg" width="1498" height="908" alt="" />
- <p class="caption">19. OLD LONDON BRIDGE FROM BILLINGSGATE<br />
- <span class="sm">G. YATES, 1828</span><br />
- <span class="sm">Plate XI</span></p>
-</div>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="max-width: 38em;">
- <a id='Plate_12' href='#Plate_12'></a>
- <br />
- <img src="images/i-121.jpg" width="1577" height="846" alt="" />
- <p class="caption">23. CAMP NEAR SERPENTINE, HYDE PARK, 1780<br />
- <span class="sm">PAUL SANDBY, R. A., 1780 (1725-1809)</span><br />
- <span class="sm">Plate XII</span></p>
-</div>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="max-width: 30em;">
- <a id='Plate_13' href='#Plate_13'></a>
- <br />
- <img src="images/i-125.jpg" width="1417" height="1050" alt="" />
- <p class="caption">31. INTERIOR OF SECOND ROYAL EXCHANGE<br />
- <span class="sm">ARTIST UNKNOWN, <i>c.</i> 1810</span><br />
- <span class="sm">Plate XIII</span></p>
-</div>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="max-width: 18em;">
- <a id='Plate_14' href='#Plate_14'></a>
- <br />
- <img src="images/i-129.jpg" width="818" height="1050" alt="" />
- <p class="caption">33. CHURCH OF ST. PETER LE POOR, OLD BROAD STREET<br />
- <span class="sm">ARTIST UNKNOWN</span><br />
- <span class="sm">Plate XIV</span></p>
-</div>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="max-width: 18em;">
- <a id='Plate_15' href='#Plate_15'></a>
- <br />
- <img src="images/i-133.jpg" width="730" height="1050" alt="" />
- <p class="caption">34. VIEW FROM THE CHURCHYARD OF ST. MARTIN’S-IN-THE-FIELDS<br />
- <span class="sm">W. HUNT (1790-1864)</span><br />
- <span class="sm">Plate XV</span></p>
-</div>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="max-width: 30em;">
- <a id='Plate_16' href='#Plate_16'></a>
- <br />
- <img src="images/i-137.jpg" width="1415" height="1050" alt="" />
- <p class="caption">35. ENCAMPMENT IN THE GROUNDS OF MONTAGUE HOUSE<br />
- <span class="sm">S. H. GRIMM, 1780 (1734-1794)</span><br />
- <span class="sm">Plate XVI</span></p>
-</div>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="max-width: 19em;">
- <a id='Plate_17' href='#Plate_17'></a>
- <br />
- <img src="images/i-141.jpg" width="871" height="1050" alt="" />
- <p class="caption">37. CHANTREY CHAPEL OF HENRY V, WESTMINSTER ABBEY<br />
- <span class="sm">JOHN CARTER, 1786 (1748-1817)</span><br />
- <span class="sm">Plate XVII</span></p>
-</div>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="max-width: 18em;">
- <a id='Plate_18' href='#Plate_18'></a>
- <br />
- <img src="images/i-145.jpg" width="773" height="1050" alt="" />
- <p class="caption">38. ABBOT ISLIP’S CHAPEL, WESTMINSTER ABBEY<br />
- <span class="sm">J. M. W. TURNER, R.A., 1796 (1775-1851)</span><br />
- <span class="sm">Plate XVIII</span></p>
-</div>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="max-width: 30em;">
- <a id='Plate_19' href='#Plate_19'></a>
- <br />
- <img src="images/i-149.jpg" width="1286" height="1050" alt="" />
- <p class="caption">41. HALL OF BROTHERHOOD OF HOLY TRINITY, ALDERSGATE<br />
- <span class="sm">W. CAPON, 1790 (1757-1827)</span><br />
- <span class="sm">Plate XIX</span></p>
-</div>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="max-width: 28em;">
- <a id='Plate_20' href='#Plate_20'></a>
- <br />
- <img src="images/i-153.jpg" width="1231" height="1050" alt="" />
- <p class="caption">45. SITE OF EUSTON SQUARE, 1809<br />
- <span class="sm">T. ROWLANDSON, 1809 (1756-1827)</span><br />
- <span class="sm">Plate XX</span></p>
-</div>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="max-width: 38em;">
- <a id='Plate_21' href='#Plate_21'></a>
- <br />
- <img src="images/i-157.jpg" width="1554" height="880" alt="" />
- <p class="caption">47. THE OLD CHEESE-CAKE HOUSE, HYDE PARK.<br />
- <span class="sm">1797</span><br />
- <span class="sm">Plate XXI</span></p>
-</div>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="max-width: 35em;">
- <a id='Plate_22' href='#Plate_22'></a>
- <br />
- <img src="images/i-161.jpg" width="1504" height="1044" alt="" />
- <p class="caption">49. FISHMONGERS’ HALL FROM THE RIVER<br />
- <i>c.</i> 1810<br />
- <span class="sm">Plate XXII</span></p>
-</div>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="max-width: 38em;">
- <a id='Plate_23' href='#Plate_23'></a>
- <br />
- <img src="images/i-163.jpg" width="1523" height="1065" alt="" />
- <p class="caption">59. ST. DUNSTAN’S-IN-THE-WEST, FLEET STREET<br />
- <span class="sm">T. MALTON THE ELDER (1726-1801)</span><br />
- <span class="sm">Plate XXIII</span></p>
-</div>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="max-width: 38em;">
- <a id='Plate_24' href='#Plate_24'></a>
- <br />
- <img src="images/i-167.jpg" width="1498" height="1027" alt="" />
- <p class="caption">61. WESTMINSTER ABBEY FROM DEAN’S YARD<br />
- <span class="sm">T. MALTON THE ELDER (1726-1801)</span><br />
- <span class="sm">Plate XXIV</span></p>
-</div>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="max-width: 35em;">
- <a id='Plate_25' href='#Plate_25'></a>
- <br />
- <img src="images/i-171.jpg" width="1470" height="1079" alt="" />
- <p class="caption">63. WAPPING<br />
- <span class="sm">THOMAS GIRTIN (1773-1802)</span><br />
- <span class="sm">Plate XXV</span></p>
-</div>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="max-width: 35em;">
- <a id='Plate_26' href='#Plate_26'></a>
- <br />
- <img src="images/i-173.jpg" width="1491" height="1078" alt="" />
- <p class="caption">64. EAST INDIA HOUSE FROM THE WEST<br />
- <span class="sm">T. MALTON THE YOUNGER (1748-1804)</span><br />
- <span class="sm">Plate XXVI</span></p>
-</div>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="max-width: 35em;">
- <a id='Plate_27' href='#Plate_27'></a>
- <br />
- <img src="images/i-177.jpg" width="1118" height="828" alt="" />
- <p class="caption">67. SADLER’S WELLS<br />
- <span class="sm">R. C. ANDREWS</span><br />
- <span class="sm">Plate XXVII</span></p>
-</div>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="max-width: 38em;">
- <a id='Plate_28' href='#Plate_28'></a>
- <br />
- <img src="images/i-181.jpg" width="1521" height="934" alt="" />
- <p class="caption">68. GREEN PARK, 1760<br />
- <span class="sm">W. HOGARTH, 1760 (1697-1764)</span><br />
- <span class="sm">Plate XXVIII</span></p>
-</div>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="max-width: 25em;">
- <a id='Plate_29' href='#Plate_29'></a>
- <br />
- <img src="images/i-185.jpg" width="1048" height="1050" alt="" />
- <p class="caption">71. ST. GEORGE’S HOSPITAL<br />
- <span class="sm">R. WILSON, R. A., 1746 (1714-1782)</span><br />
- <span class="sm">Plate XXIX</span></p>
-</div>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="max-width: 25em;">
- <a id='Plate_30' href='#Plate_30'></a>
- <br />
- <img src="images/i-189.jpg" width="1048" height="1050" alt="" />
- <p class="caption">72. THE CHARTERHOUSE<br />
- <span class="sm">THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH, R. A., 1746 (1727-1788)</span><br />
- <span class="sm">Plate XXX</span></p>
-</div>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="max-width: 25em;">
- <a id='Plate_31' href='#Plate_31'></a>
- <br />
- <img src="images/i-193.jpg" width="1130" height="1050" alt="" />
- <p class="caption">73. ALDGATE PARISH SCHOOL AND WATCH-HOUSE AND TOWER OF CHURCH<br />
- <span class="sm">R. R. SCHNEBBELIE (DIED ABOUT 1849)</span><br />
- <span class="sm">Plate XXXI</span></p>
-</div>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="max-width: 35em;">
- <a id='Plate_32' href='#Plate_32'></a>
- <br />
- <img src="images/i-197.jpg" width="1412" height="991" alt="" />
- <p class="caption">77. EAST INDIA HOUSE FROM THE EAST<br />
- <span class="sm">T. MALTON THE YOUNGER (1748-1804)</span><br />
- <span class="sm">Plate XXXII</span></p>
-</div>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="max-width: 38em;">
- <a id='Plate_33' href='#Plate_33'></a>
- <br />
- <img src="images/i-201.jpg" width="1565" height="855" alt="" />
- <p class="caption">78. A WATER PAGEANT ON THE THAMES<br />
- <span class="sm">SCHOOL OF SAMUEL SCOTT</span><br />
- <span class="sm">Plate XXXIII</span></p>
-</div>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="max-width: 38em;">
- <a id='Plate_34' href='#Plate_34'></a>
- <br />
- <img src="images/i-205.jpg" width="1556" height="752" alt="" />
- <p class="caption">81. WESTMINSTER BRIDGE AND WESTMINSTER ABBEY FROM THE RIVER<br />
- <span class="sm">SAMUEL SCOTT (ABOUT 1710-1772)</span><br />
- <span class="sm">Plate XXXIV</span></p>
-</div>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="max-width: 35em;">
- <a id='Plate_35' href='#Plate_35'></a>
- <br />
- <img src="images/i-209.jpg" width="1486" height="1090" alt="" />
- <p class="caption">82. SIR RICHARD STEELE’S COTTAGE, HAMPSTEAD<br />
- <span class="sm">J. CONSTABLE, R.A., 1832 (1776-1837)</span><br />
- <span class="sm">Plate XXXV</span></p>
-</div>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="max-width: 38em;">
- <a id='Plate_36' href='#Plate_36'></a>
- <br />
- <img src="images/i-213.jpg" width="1577" height="910" alt="" />
- <p class="caption">87. PARADE AND WHITEHALL FROM ST. JAMES’S PARK<br />
- <span class="sm">S. SCOTT (<i>c.</i> 1710-1772)</span><br />
- <span class="sm">Plate XXXVI</span></p>
-</div>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="max-width: 38em;">
- <a id='Plate_37' href='#Plate_37'></a>
- <br />
- <img src="images/i-217.jpg" width="1552" height="908" alt="" />
- <p class="caption">88. WHITEHALL FROM THE NORTH<br />
- <span class="sm">S. SCOTT (<i>c.</i> 1710-1772)</span><br />
- <span class="sm">Plate XXXVII</span></p>
-</div>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="max-width: 38em;">
- <a id='Plate_38' href='#Plate_38'></a>
- <br />
- <img src="images/i-221.jpg" width="1584" height="817" alt="" />
- <p class="caption">91. WESTMINSTER FROM BELOW YORK WATER-GATE<br />
- <span class="sm">THOMAS WIJCK (ABOUT 1616-1677)</span> <br />
- <span class="sm">Plate XXXVIII</span></p>
-</div>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="max-width: 38em;">
- <a id='Plate_39' href='#Plate_39'></a>
- <br />
- <img src="images/i-225.jpg" width="1561" height="911" alt="" />
- <p class="caption">92. WESTMINSTER FROM LAMBETH<br />
- <span class="sm">S. SCOTT (?) (<i>c.</i> 1710-1772)</span><br />
- <span class="sm">Plate XXXIX</span></p>
-</div>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="max-width: 30em;">
- <a id='Plate_40' href='#Plate_40'></a>
- <br />
- <img src="images/i-229.jpg" width="1315" height="1050" alt="" />
- <p class="caption">93. THE OLD STOCKS’ MARKET<br />
- <span class="sm">JOSEF VAN AKEN (1709-1749)</span><br />
- <span class="sm">Plate XL</span></p>
-</div>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="max-width: 38em;">
- <a id='Plate_41' href='#Plate_41'></a>
- <br />
- <img src="images/i-233.jpg" width="1554" height="1008" alt="" />
- <p class="caption">94. RIVER VIEW FROM GARDEN OF OLD SOMERSET HOUSE<br />
- <span class="sm">SAMUEL SCOTT (ABOUT 1710-1772)</span><br />
- <span class="sm">Plate XLI</span></p>
-</div>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="max-width: 38em;">
- <a id='Plate_42' href='#Plate_42'></a>
- <br />
- <img src="images/i-237.jpg" width="1542" height="961" alt="" />
- <p class="caption">95. OLD WESTMINSTER BRIDGE<br />
- <span class="sm">S. SCOTT (<i>c.</i> 1710-1772)</span><br />
- <span class="sm">Plate XLII</span></p>
-</div>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="max-width: 38em;">
- <a id='Plate_43' href='#Plate_43'></a>
- <br />
- <img src="images/i-241.jpg" width="1525" height="902" alt="" />
- <p class="caption">96. WHITEHALL FROM ST. JAMES’S PARK<br />
- <span class="sm">H. DANCKERTS (<i>c.</i> 1630-1678)</span><br />
- <span class="sm">Plate XLIII</span></p>
-</div>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="max-width: 35em;">
- <a id='Plate_44' href='#Plate_44'></a>
- <br />
- <img src="images/i-245.jpg" width="1521" height="1004" alt="" />
- <p class="caption">100<i>b</i>. ELY PLACE, HOLBORN<br />
- <span class="sm">J. CARTER, 1776 (1748-1817)</span><br />
- <span class="sm">Plate XLIV</span></p>
-</div>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="max-width: 38em;">
- <a id='Plate_45' href='#Plate_45'></a>
- <br />
- <img src="images/i-249.jpg" width="1505" height="960" alt="" />
- <p class="caption">104. RANELAGH<br />
- <span class="sm">HAS BEEN ASCRIBED TO HOGARTH; PERHAPS BY F. HAYMAN (1708-1776)</span><br />
- <span class="sm">Plate XLV</span></p>
-</div>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="max-width: 35em;">
- <a id='Plate_46' href='#Plate_46'></a>
- <br />
- <img src="images/i-253.jpg" width="1503" height="1068" alt="" />
- <p class="caption">107. OLD LONDON BRIDGE AND NEW LONDON BRIDGE FROM SOUTHWARK<br />
- <span class="sm">G. B. MOORE, 1830 (1806-1875)</span><br />
- <span class="sm">Plate XLVI</span></p>
-</div>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="max-width: 18em;">
- <a id='Plate_47' href='#Plate_47'></a>
- <br />
- <img src="images/i-257.jpg" width="817" height="1050" alt="" />
- <p class="caption">111. ST. PAUL’S CATHEDRAL FROM ST. MARTIN’S-LE-GRAND<br />
- <span class="sm">THOMAS GIRTIN (1773-1802)</span><br />
- <span class="sm">Plate XLVII</span></p>
-</div>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="max-width: 38em;">
- <a id='Plate_48' href='#Plate_48'></a>
- <br />
- <img src="images/i-261.jpg" width="1519" height="1033" alt="" />
- <p class="caption">112. OLD WESTMINSTER<br />
- <span class="sm">D. COX (1783-1859)</span><br />
- <span class="sm">Plate XLVIII</span></p>
-</div>
-
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