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 35 ENCAMPMENT IN THE GROUNDS OF MONTAGUE HOUSE.

Watercolour. 26-1/2 by 19-1/2 in.

The first Montague House, Bloomsbury, was destroyed by fire 19 January 1685-6, and the second, here shown, was designed soon afterwards by a Frenchman, Pierre Puget, or Poughet. The encampment is on the open space at the back of the mansion. The West Yorkshire Regiment is represented marching past Dr. John Moore, Bishop of Bangor, afterwards Bishop of Canterbury. Montague House had been bought for the British Museum under an Act passed in 1753. Additions were gradually made, but it was not until 1845 that the old building was entirely demolished.

S. H. Grimm, who painted this watercolour, which is signed and dated, was born at Burgdorf, Switzerland, and settled in London about 1778. He sometimes exhibited at the Royal Academy, and was employed by the Society of Antiquaries, his work being chiefly topographical.

By, 1780 (1734-1794).

Lent by H.M. the King.

36a VIEW NEAR THE TURNPIKE AT NEW CROSS.

Watercolour, outlined with a pen. 12-1/2 by 9-1/2 in.

The scene is a rural one, with what appear to be an oast-house and other farm buildings in the foreground. The hill is called in Rocque's map showing the Environs of London (1745) Plow'd Garlick Hill, afterwards Telegraph Hill. On it stands Aske's School, belonging to the Haberdashers' Company. Much of the rest remained open until a few years ago; now only a recreation ground has been saved from the builder. This hill is immediately south of the Turnpike site, now called New Cross Gate. New Cross was an outlying district of the parish of Deptford. Evelyn, in his "Diary," 10 November 1675, mentions going in his coach from Sayes Court to "New Cross" to accompany Lord Berkeley to Dover.

Lent by Sir E. Coates.