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._