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 9 WESTMINSTER ABBEY, SOUTH VIEW FROM RIVER.

Pen and watercolour. 5-1/4 by 3 in.

A choice drawing delicately tinted, shows Henry VIIth's Chapel and the Chapter-house. The tower to the left of the latter must be the King's Jewel-house. The narrow strip to extreme left, intended perhaps to represent part of a turret of Lambeth Palace, is a later addition joined on.

By (1607-1677). Lent by Mr. J. P. Heseltine.

10 VIEW FROM AN ARCHWAY OF WESTMINSTER BRIDGE.

Wash and pen drawing. 19 by 11-1/2 in.

Looking down stream, shows the riverside from York Water-tower to St. Paul's.

By, c. 1747 (1697-1768). Lent by H.M. the King.

11 VIEW UP RIVER TO WESTMINSTER.

Wash and pen drawing. 28-1/4 by 15-1/4 in.

On spectator's right the first important object is York Water-gate still standing at the end of Buckingham Street, Strand, probably designed by Inigo Jones in 1626, and executed by Nicholas Stone. (The design is claimed for the latter in his Account Book.) Behind it is the house where Samuel Pepys lived with Hewer. No. 14 Buckingham Street is on the site. Next is York Water-tower, a slender wooden building about seventy feet high, part of the waterworks established 27 Charles II to supply the West End with Thames water. They were burnt down and re-erected in 1690. Westminster Abbey and Westminster Hall are prominent. Westminster Bridge is unfinished. Lambeth Palace appears in the distance to spectator's left. A drawing apparently copied from this is in the print room of the British Museum.

By, c. 1746 (1697-1768). Lent by Mr. J. P. Heseltine.

12 OLD WESTMINSTER BRIDGE.

Wash and pen drawing. 19 by 11-1/2 in.

This view appears to be taken from the Westminster side. According to Labelye's "Description," published in 1751, the bridge was