YORK STAIRS AND SURROUNDING BUILDINGS, circa 1745, after an original drawing by Canaletti in the British Museum. This is one of the few interesting views of Old London sketched by Canaletti during his short stay in England. It comprises the famous water-gate designed by Inigo Jones, and the tall wooden tower of the York Buildings Water Company. The large mansion behind this (at the south-west corner of Buckingham Street) was that inhabited by Pepys from 1684, and in which he entertained the members of the Royal Society during his presidency. The house at the opposite corner (seen above the trees) is that in which the Czar Peter the Great resided for some time, when he visited England for instruction in shipbuilding 144 CROCKFORD’S FISH-SHOP, from an original sketch 146 THE OLD ROMAN BATH, from a drawing 169 EXETER CHANGE, 1821, from an etching by Cooke 188 TITUS OATES IN THE PILLORY, from an anonymous contemporary Dutch engraving 190 THE KING’S MEWS, 1750, from a print by I. Maurer. This building, erected in 1732 at the expense of King George II., was pulled down in 1830. In the foreground of this view the King is represented returning to his carriage after inspecting his horses 238 BARRACK AND OLD HOUSES on the site of Trafalgar Square in 1826, from an original sketch by F. W. Fairholt. The view is taken from St. Martin’s Church, looking toward Pall Mall; the building in the distance, to the left, is the College of Physicians 239 OLD SLAUGHTER’S COFFEE-HOUSE, 1826, from an original sketch by F. W. Fairholt 260 SALISBURY AND WORCESTER HOUSES IN 1630, from a drawing by Hollar in the Pepysian Library, Cambridge 262 LYON’S INN, 1804, from an engraving in Herbert’s _History of the Inns of Court_ 286 CRAVEN HOUSE, 1790, from an original drawing in the British Museum 287 DRURY LANE THEATRE, 1806, from an original drawing by Pugin. This was the _third_ theatre, succeeding Garrick’s. It was built by Henry Holland, opened March 12, 1794, and burnt down Feb. 24, 1809. It was never properly finished on the side toward Catherine Street, where this view was taken 347 CHURCH LANE AND DYOT STREET, from an original sketch by F. W. Fairholt 349 THE SEVEN DIALS, from an original sketch by F. W. Fairholt 386