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after his duel with Lord Mohun the Duke of Hamilton was helped towards the "Cake-house," but died on the grass before he could reach it. Later it was sometimes called the Mince-pie House. Demolished 1835-36. There is an engraving of it in the "Gentleman's Magazine" for May 1801.

Date 1797.

Lent by H.M. the King.

48a BUCKINGHAM HOUSE. Wash drawing in Indian ink. 10-3/4 by 5-3/4 in. Buckingham House in St. James's Park was designed by Captain William Winde, said to have been a pupil of Gerbier, and to have been born at Bergen-op-Zoom, being finished for John Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham, in 1705. There is an account of it with elevation in Sir Reginald Blomfield's book on English renaissance architecture. It was bought by George III, settled on Queen Charlotte, and here Dr. Johnson had his famous interview with the King. The original building was altered and added to from 1825 onwards until it quite disappeared, Buckingham Palace covering the site. Winde was of Norfolk family, well connected. See references to him in "Notes and Queries," and his pedigree by Mr. J. Challenor Smith in Surrey Arch. Coll., vol. x. By, 1746. Lent by H.M. the King.

48b THE HORSE GUARDS PARADE.

Wash drawing in Indian ink. 10-3/4 by 5-3/4 in.

On spectator's left is the Admiralty (on the site of Wallingford House), surmounted by a semaphore telegraph. To the left of the Banqueting House is the Guard House, not that designed by Kent and finished by Vardy, but a previous building. Through the gateway beneath, a long procession has issued, the royal carriage with eight horses being in the foreground. Among other buildings shown are the Holbein Gate-house and the Treasury.

By, about 1750.

Lent by H.M. the King.