Catalogue of a collection of early drawings and pictures of London: With some contemporary furnitureBurlington Fine Arts Club
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Catalogue of a collection of early drawings and pictures of London: With some contemporary furniture
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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.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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