30a REMAINS OF WINCHESTER HOUSE, AUSTIN FRIARS, FROM GREAT WINCHESTER STREET. Watercolour. 8-1/2 by 7 in. After the Dissolution the precinct of Austin Friars, except the nave of the church, came into the hands of William Paulet, first Marquis of Winchester, who there made a residence for himself. A portion of it remained until 1844, and is here shown; the heavy portico is evidently a later addition. During recent excavations masonry was found which must have belonged to this building. By G. Shepherd, 1811. Lent by Sir E. Coates.
30b BACK OF WINCHESTER HOUSE, AUSTIN FRIARS. Watercolour. 7-1/4 by 4-3/4 in. Samuel Ireland, who painted this, was originally a mechanic of Spitalfields. He took to art, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1782, and brought out various illustrated books. The last was "Picturesque Views of the Inns of Court," published in 1800, the year in which he died. His son achieved notoriety as forger of Shakespeare manuscripts. By S. Ireland. Lent by Sir E. Coates.
Plate XIII. 31 INTERIOR OF SECOND ROYAL EXCHANGE.
Watercolour. 21-1/2 by 16 in.
The first Royal Exchange was founded by Sir Thomas Gresham, being opened by Queen Elizabeth 23 January 1570-71. It was destroyed in the Great Fire.
The second Exchange, designed by Edward Jarman or Jerman, City surveyor, and begun 1667, was, like the earlier one, a quadrangular building, with a clock tower on the chief front facing Cornhill. Business was transacted in the covered walk or cloister within. The statue of Charles II in the centre was by Grinling Gibbons.
This view was drawn from the north-west corner of the walk; the pinnacles of St. Michael's church tower, Cornhill, appear above the building.
Unsigned. Date probably about 1810. Lent by Sir E. Coates.
