Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.13524

    Ante Room, (looking north) Carlton House

    Date
    1818
    Creator
    William James Bennett (1787, British) , Engraver
    After
    Charles Wild (1781, British) , Painter
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    Dimensions
    height (print): 307mm
    width (print): 362mm
    Subject
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    Description
    Interior of Carlton House, London showing the Ante Room on the principal floor. From the relatively plain ceiling hangs a chandelier. The walls are hung with portraits. A fireplace, statues, and small pieces of furniture such as chairs and Boulle cabinets line the walls. In the centre there is an open doorway leading to a hallway in which stand four men.

    Plate from The history of the Royal residences of Windsor Castle, St James’s Palace, Carlton House, Kensington Palace, Hampton Court, Buckingham House and Frogmore, by W.H. Pyne, 3 volumes (London, L. Harrison for A. Dry, 1816-1819).

    Inscribed below ‘C.Wild del. W.J.Bennett sculp. Ante Room (looking north) Carlton House. Pub, Oct, 1, 1818, by W. H. Pyne. 9 Nassau Street, Soho.’

    Carlton House was the London residence of George, the Prince of Wales, later King George IV. The architect Henry Holland (1745-1806) rebuilt the house in the years 1783-1796 and the interiors were altered almost constantly. The building was demolished in 1826.

    William Henry Pyne [pseud. Ephraim Hardcastle] (1770–1843), artist and writer, was a founder of the Royal Watercolour Society.
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