Oil picture. 28 by 16½ in.
On what is called the Horse Guards Parade, cavalry and infantry are
being exercised. To left is the Admiralty, built 1724-26, T. Ripley
architect; it is surmounted by a semaphore telegraph and has a 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 S. SCOTT (about 1710-1772).
_Lent by the Marquess of Sligo._