Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.13525

    Ante Room, Carlton House

    Date
    1817
    Creator
    Thomas Sutherland (1785, British) , Engraver
    After
    Charles Wild (1781, British) , Painter
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    Dimensions
    height (print): 306mm
    width (print): 360mm
    Subject
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    Description
    Interior of Carlton House, London showing the Ante Room on the principle floor. To the left (as viewed) there are two sets of doors with a table between them and portraits of the royal family and of A Young Man with a Falcon by Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) Flemish artist, hanging on the walls. The back wall has a Louis XVI ebony table and statuettes between two large windows decorated with curtains. To the right is a fireplace between two large doors and more portraits. From the relatively plain ceiling hangs a chandelier.

    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 ‘Drawn by C.Wild. Engraved by T. Sutherland. Ante Room. Carlton House. Pub, Oct, 1, 1817, 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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