Oil picture. 36 by 18 in.
In foreground to left is part of the garden of old Somerset House,
with the stairs or landing-stage. St. Paul’s Cathedral and many church
steeples are shown, also old London Bridge, houses still on it. In
Southwark are St. Olave’s Church, Tooley Street, St. Saviour’s, now
Southwark Cathedral, and on the extreme right an octagonal building
which looks extremely like a Bankside theatre, although, according
to existing evidence, they had all disappeared long before the date
of this picture. The last apparently was the Hope, not known to have
survived after the year 1682, when there was an advertisement in
the “Loyal Protestant,” with reference to “the Hope on the Bankside,
being His Majesty’s Bear Garden.”
By S. SCOTT (about 1710-1772).
_Lent by the Marquess of Sligo._