Description | Six small hand coloured etchings/engravings of scenes around Piccadilly, comprising:
1) 'The Duke of York's Column, Athenaeum and United Service Clubs, Pall Mall', London, [after 1834]. 2) 'Piccadilly, London, Middlesex', [c.1840] 3) 'Burlington House, about 1700', initialed 'WP', taken from Cassell's 'Old and New London', [?1870s]. Print shows the original Burlington House with the gardens and land surrounding it. 4) 'A View of Burlington House and Albany, in Piccadilly', published by J Asperne at the Bible, Crown & Constitution, 1 Dec 1804. Taken from the 'European Magazine'. 5) 'Burlington House, Piccadilly', engraving by T Cleghorn after drawing by Thomas H Shepherd, taken from 'London and its environs in the nineteenth century, London', [1831]. Print shows the Palladian style building constructed in c.1731. 6) 'New Burlington House', engraved by G Greatbach, taken from Cassell's 'Old and New London', [?1870s]. Shows the frontage of the new wings constructed between 1873-1874. |
Administrative History | The United Service Club moved the the John Nash building in Pall Mall in 1828, the Duke of York's Column was completed in 1834. |