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walled garden. Near centre is the Guard-house with clock turret, an earlier building than the Horse Guards designed by Kent and finished by Vardy 1753. In background the Banqueting House and Holbein Gate. To right Kent's Treasury (1733-34), and touching frame a building which has been the official home of the Chief Lord of the Treasury since 1735. It is only part of the present No. 10 Downing Street, which has been altered and added to by Soane and others. See note on No. 96.

By (about 1710-1772).

Lent by the Marquess of Sligo.

88 WHITEHALL FROM THE NORTH.

Oil picture. 28 by 16-1/2 in.

Chief building to left is the Banqueting House, designed by Inigo Jones and erected 1619-22, afterwards a royal chapel, now added to (with loss of symmetry) and used by the United Service Institution. The first English example of pure Palladian design, and still containing Rubens's painted ceiling. Beyond it is wall of Privy Garden. Crossing road is the Holbein, or Whitehall, Gate just mentioned, of which there is an interesting engraving by Vertue in "Vetusta Monumenta," 1725. On each side were four glazed terracotta medallions of fine Italian workmanship. It stood originally "thwart the high streete" from Charing Cross to Westminster, and was demolished to make room for Parliament Street in 1759. The material was moved to Windsor, the then Duke of Cumberland, ranger of the park and forest there, intending to re-erect it. A gleam of light shows entrance to the Horse Guards. House to right with pediment must be the present Paymaster General's Office.

By (about 1710-1772).

Lent by the Marquess of Sligo.

89 WHITEHALL FROM ST. JAMES'S PARK.

Oil picture. 47-1/2 by 29-1/2 in.

Portion of view shown in No. 87, but dating from near the end of Charles II's reign. It will presently be pointed out that No. 96 is a still earlier picture of almost the same subject, so to avoid