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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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.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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