London and Its Environs Described, vol. 2 (of 6): Containing an Account of Whatever is Most Remarkable for Grandeur, Elegance, Curiosity or Use, in the City and in the Country Twenty Miles Round ItAnonymous
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London and Its Environs Described, vol. 2 (of 6): Containing an Account of Whatever is Most Remarkable for Grandeur, Elegance, Curiosity or Use, in the City and in the Country Twenty Miles Round It
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London (England) -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800; London (England) -- Gazetteers -- Early works to 1800
Several portraits, among which are historical and other subjects, viz.
An historical subject, P. da Cortona.
Achilles and the Centaur, S. Rosa.
A battle piece, M. Angelo Battaglio.
Death of St. Peter, Guido.
In the Lower Room among many others are the following.
Consecration of Thomas a Becket, J. Van Eyck.[4]
Pope with his Cardinals in procession.
The presentation of Christ in the Temple, Hans Holbein.
Two pictures, Watteau.
Roman amphitheatre.
A conversation, candlelight.
Shoeing a horse, Wouwerman.
Landscape, Rowland Savory.
The beasts going into the ark. Jacopo Bassano.
Chymist’s laboratory, Teniers.
View of Newmarket, Tillemans.
Boar hunting, M. de Vos.
Two small pictures, Teniers.
Landscape, Domenichino.
Apollo and Marsyas, Titian.
Apollo and Midas, ditto.
Landscape, Bergham.
A conversation, candlelight, Bamboccio.
Footnote 4:
This picture is supposed to have formerly belonged to the Arundel
collection, and from thence came to Henry Duke of Norfolk, from
whose steward Mr. Fox, it was bought by Mr. Sykes, who afterwards
sold it to the Duke of Devonshire, 1722.
The tradition concerning it was, that King Henry V. received it as
a present, about a year before his death, from the famous John
Duke of Bedford then Regent of England, and afterwards Regent of
France in the reign of Henry VI. The Duke of Bedford bespoke it of
John Van Eyck the painter, who invented the art of painting in
oil. Thomas a Becket, whose consecration this painting is supposed
to represent, was the favourite saint of King Henry V.
The length of this picture is forty-five inches, its breadth
twenty-nine, and the height of the principal figure twenty-one and
a half.
DEVONSHIRE _square_, Bishopsgate street. Here was formerly a very
large and fine house, built by Jasper Fisher, one of the six clerks
in Chancery, which on account of his being a man of no great birth
or fortune, and much involved in debt, was called in derision,
Fisher’s Folly; this house afterwards belonged to the Earl of
Oxford, and lastly to the Earl of Devonshire, whose name is still
preserved in the street and square built upon its ruins. _Maitland._
This is a neat but small square, surrounded with good houses, with
rows of trees before them; and adorned in the middle with the statue
of Mercury gilt, placed on a pedestal, which is ornamented on each
of the four sides with figures in bas relief. This square is
inhabited by wealthy merchants.
DEVONSHIRE _street_, 1. Leading from Bishopsgate street to Devonshire
square. 2. Queen square, Great Ormond street.
DIAMOND _court_, 1. Pearl street. Tite’s alley.
DICE KEY _lane_, Billingsgate, Thames street.
DICE KEY _passage_, Thames street.
DICK’S _court_, Crown alley, Upper Moorfields.
DICK’S SHORE, Fore street, Limehouse.
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