Oil picture. 28 by 16½ 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 S. SCOTT (about 1710-1772).
_Lent by the Marquess of Sligo._