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).