"View in Whitehall with the Admiralty with arched entrance and screen wall to the right, the Horse Guards further down the street and the Banqueting House on the left; a sedan chair and a coach on the street."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Vüe perspective de l'Admirauté, du nouveau batiment pour les Gardes á Cheval, Whitehall, &c.
Description:
Titles etched below image, in English and French., Probably a later state, with slight alteration to the plate numbering. For a state with "No. 12" in upper right corner, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1880,1113.2776., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue., Plate reissued by Sayer and Bennett and listed in their 1775 catalogue as part of the series "Twelve views of the city of London and public buildings therein, accurately engraved from the originals taken on the spot", in the section on "Sets of small prints"; see: Sayer and Bennett's enlarged catalogue of new and valuable prints. London : [Sayer and Bennett], 1775, pages 86-87, no. 8., Plate numbered "12" in upper right corner., and Leaf 31 in an album of views of London and its vicinity.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, map & printseller, at the Golden Buck near Serjeants Inn, Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
London (England) and Whitehall (London, England),
Subject (Name):
Whitehall Palace (London, England),, Horse Guards (London, England : Building),, and Great Britain. Admiralty
Subject (Topic):
Buildings, Government facilities, Carriages & coaches, and Sedan chairs