The view is the same as No. 23. In an old inventory there is an
entry relating to it:--"Rec^{d}. 23^{rd} March 1819. View of the
Savoy, with old Somerset House, on the banks of the Thames, painted
by Scott, the English Canaletti. Bought of Colnaghi, £265." Samuel
Scott, the marine painter, is the artist referred to. He was a
companion of Hogarth's, and a jovial one too--but he was also much
more, being an admirable painter of marine and topographical
subjects. There are three characteristic views of London by him in
the National Gallery, where is also his own portrait by Hudson.