Watercolour. 21¼ by 15 in.
View looking down river from garden of the Earl of Fife’s house at
Whitehall. The distance is somewhat idealized. To left is Somerset
House. Waterloo Bridge is not yet built, but near its site at south
end is one of the shot towers, still standing though put to other
uses. The bridge shown is old Blackfriars, opened 1769, as we have
said elsewhere.
John Claude Nattes, painter of this and of the next watercolour,
numbered 110, was an industrious topographical artist. He exhibited
occasionally at the Royal Academy and was one of the foundation members
of the Old Watercolour Society, but was expelled for exhibiting what
was held to be not his own work. With his latest breath he condemned
the action of the Society. He published several topographical volumes
illustrated by himself, and drew for other publications.
By J. C. NATTES, 1801 (1765-1822).
_Lent by the Rev. L. Gilbertson._