the Archbishop of Canterbury, March 25, 1843. The Grand Staircase is of white marble and decorated by L. Gruner. The Library is generally used as a waiting-room for deputations, which, as soon as the Queen is ready to receive them, pass across the Sculpture Gallery into the Hall, and thence ascend by the Grand Staircase through an anteroom and the Green Drawing-room to the Throne Room. The Green Drawing-room, which opens upon the portico of Nash's building, is 50 feet in length and 32 in height, and hung with green satin, striped and relieved with gilding. The door and shutter-panels are filled with mirrors. The magnificent Ballroom on the south side was completed in 1856, from Pennethorne's designs, and decorated by L. Gruner. When state balls are given, visitors having the entrée alight at the temporary garden entrance, and the general company enter by the Grand Hall. Visitors are conducted through the Green Drawing-room to the Picture Gallery and the Grand Saloon. On these occasions refreshments are served in the Garter Room and Green Drawing-room, and supper laid in the principal Dining-room. The State concerts are given in the Grand Saloon. The Throne Room is 64 feet in length. Here is placed the Royal Throne or Chair of State. The ceiling of the room is coved, richly emblazoned with arms, and gilded in the boldest Italian style of the 15th century. Beneath is a white marble frieze (the Wars of the Roses), designed by Stothard and executed by E. H. Baily, R.A. The pictures in Buckingham Palace were principally collected by George IV. The Dutch and Flemish pictures, of which the collection chiefly consists, are hung together. They are almost without exception first-rate works. The portraits are in the State Rooms adjoining. ALBERT DÜRER (1).—An Altar Piece in three parts. MABUSE (1).-St. Matthew called from the receipt of Custom. The Shipbuilder and his wife (very fine, cost George IV. when Prince of Wales, 5000 guineas). RUBENS (7).-Pythagoras-the fruit and animals by SNYDERS, 8 feet 8 inches CUYP (9).-HOBBEMA (2). RUYSDAEL (1). A. VANDERVELDE (7), of great excellence. YOUNGER VANDERVELDE (4). PAUL POTTER (4). BACKHUYSEN (1). BERGHEM (8). BOTH (1). G. Douw (8). KAREL DU JARDIN (5). DE HOOGHE (2). N. Maes (1).—A Young Woman, with her finger on her lip and in a listening attitude, stealing down a dark winding staircase (very fine). METZU (6). One his own portrait. F. MIERIS (4).-A. OSTADE (9). I. STEEN (6). YOUNGER TENIERS (14). OSTADE (2). SCHALKEN (3). JAN TERBURG (2). VANDERHEYDEN (2). Vandermeulen (13). A. VANDERNEER (1). VANDERWERFF (3). WOUVERMANS (10). WEENIX (I). WYNANTS (1). WATTEAU (4). There are also a few good works by French painters, as CLAUDE LORRAINE, GASPAR POUSSIN, WATTEAU, GREUZE (3) and GRANES. SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS (3).-Death of Dido. Cymon and Iphigenia. His own portrait, in spectacles. ZOFFANY (2).—Interior of the Florentine Gallery. Royal Academy in 1773. SIR P. LELY (1).—Anne Hyde, Duchess of York. SIR D. WILKIE (3).—The Penny Wedding. in Highland dress. Blind Man's Buff. Duke of Sussex SIR W. ALLAN.-The Orphan. Anne Scott near the vacant chair of her father, Sir Walter Scott. Mode of admission-order from the Lord Chamberlain, granted only when the Court is absent. The Mews, concealed from the palace by a lofty mound, contains a spacious riding-school; a room expressly for keeping state harness; stables for the state horses; and houses for forty carriages. Here, too, is kept the magnificent state coach, designed by Sir W. Chambers, architect, in 1762; and painted by Cipriani with a series of emblematical subjects, the entire cost being £7661: 16:5. The stud of horses and the carriage may be inspected by an order from the Master of the Horse. The entrance is in Buckingham Palace Road. The garden, by Jenkins, is about 40 acres, of which nearly 5 acres are occupied by a lake. The garden has been laid out and planted to secure privacy as far as possible. In the garden is the Queen's summer-house, on the pavilion, containing the frescoes (eight in number) from Milton's Comus, executed in 1844-1845 by Eastlake, Maclise, Landseer, Dyce, Stanfield, Uwins, Leslie, and Ross. The ornaments and borders are by Gruner. Buckingham Place Road, the modern title of the road from Buckingham Palace to Pimlico. Commencing from the east, it absorbs what were Stafford Row, Queen's Row, King's Row, and Lower and Upper Belgrave Place, with two or three subsidiary rows and terraces. Edward B. Stephens, A.R. A., sculptor, died here in 1882. Buckingham Street, FITZROY SQUARE. It lies north-west of the square, between Bolsover Street and Upper Cleveland Street. John Flaxman, the sculptor, took up his residence at No. 6 in 1794, the year in which he returned from pursuing his studies at Rome,1 and continued to reside in the same house till his death, December 7, 1826. Here Allan Cunningham visited him in 1825. He received me with his hat in his hand, and conducted me into his little studio among models and sketches. There was but one chair, and a small barrel which held coals, with a board laid over it. On the former he seated me, and occupied the latter himself, after having removed a favourite black cat who seemed to consider the act ungracious. Our talk was all concerning poetry and poets.-A. Cunningham's “Life of Flaxman," Lives of British Painters, Sculptors, etc., vol. iii. p. 356. Dr. Wollaston, F.R.S., lived at No. 14. In 1812-1813 C. R. Leslie, R.A., then commencing his career as a painter, was lodging at No. 8 Buckingham Place, Fitzroy Square; his friend Allston, the American, had lodgings in the same house. 1 Hayley's Life, vol. ii. p. 100. 3 Buckingham Street, STRAND, built 1675,1 and so called after George Villiers, the second and last Duke of Buckingham of the Villiers family. [See George Street, Villiers Street, Duke Street, Of Alley, York House, and York Water - Gate.] Eminent Inhabitants.-Samuel Pepys, author of the Diary; he came here in 1684. His house (since rebuilt and numbered 14) was the last on the west side, and looked on the Thames.2 His friend, William Hewer, lived here before him. Peter the Great, "in a large house at the bottom of York Buildings," on the east side over against Pepys. The witty Earl of Dorset, in 1681. Robert Harley, Esq., in 1706 (afterwards Earl of Oxford). Dr. Welwood, known by his Memoirs, died here in 1727. When David Hume and Jean Jacques Rousseau arrived in England in 1765, they were received with great hospitality by Hume's friend, John Stewart, at his house in this street, and they afterwards removed into lodgings a few doors off. In one or other of these houses Rousseau laid the scene of all the imaginary insults heaped upon him by his brother philosopher; the crowning injury being inflicted at their parting in Buckingham Street, which Rousseau describes with such comic vehemence. Whilst here Rousseau was the object of much curiosity. They are lodged together in Buckingham Street, Strand, where many go from civility to see him.-Cardwell Papers, vol. ii. p. 63. John Henderson, the actor, died in a house in this street in 1785. William Etty, R.A., occupied No. 14, from 1826 to within a few months of his death in 1849. His chambers and painting room were at first on the ground floor, but afterwards at the top of the house. Here he invited Stothard to breakfast with him "at 9 o'clock, when there is a good light to see my Venetian studies of colour, which are all hung round the room where I breakfast." Stanfield succeeded him in the lower rooms. Should my reader's boat ever stop at York Water-Gate [the Thames embankment, or the garden by the Water-Gate may be substituted now] let me request him to look up at the three upper balconied windows of that mass of building at the south-west corner of Buckingham Street. Those, and the two adjoining Westminster, give light to chambers occupied by that truly epic historical painter, and most excellent man, Etty, the Royal Academician, who has fitted up the balconied room with engravings after pictures of the three great masters, Raphael, Nicholas Poussin, and Rubens. The other two windows illuminate his painting room, in which his mind and colours resplendently shine, even in the face of one of the grandest scenes in Nature, our River Thames and City edifices, with a most luxuriant and extensive face of a distant country, the beauties of which he most liberally delights in showing to his friends from the leads of his apartments. . . The rooms immediately below Mr. Etty's are occupied by Mr. Lloyd, a gentleman whose general knowledge in the graphic art, I and many more look up to with the profoundest respect. The chambers beneath Mr. Lloyd's are inhabited by Mr. Stanfield, the landscape painter. -J. T. Smith's Book for a Rainy Day, 3d. ed. p. 292. 1 Rate-books of St. Martin's. 2 Strype, B. vi. p. 76. 3 At Hampton Court is a very good view of Buckingham Street from the river, by W. James, circ. 1756. The houses of Pepys and Peter the Great are seen to great advantage. No. 22 was the house of Power, the publisher of the Irish Melodies, to whom Moore wrote so many letters. "Strata" Smith, "the father of modern geology," lived in this street, and his young nephew, John Phillips (afterwards the Oxford professor), was with him. Smollett's man, Strap, was for several years before his death keeper of the lodge of Buckingham Terrace, Strand, near Inigo Jones's watergate. Smith's Nollekens, vol. i. p. 293. "2 Bucklersbury, or, as Stow writes it, "Buckles bury," and "so called," he says, "of a manor and tenements pertaining to one Buckle who there dwelt and kept his courts,' "1 but in this, as in many of his derivations, he is in error. As Mr. Riley has shown, "the original name of this locality was Bokerelesburi, it being so called from the once opulent family of the Bokerels or Bukerels, who dwelt there in the 13th century." Andrew Buckerel was mayor from 1231 to 1236. Bucklersbury led from the east end of Cheapside to Charlotte Row, the west side of the Mansion House, but has of late been cut in half and greatly diminished in extent by the formation of Queen Victoria Street. Stow says "this whole street, on both the sides throughout, is possessed of grocers and apothecaries," and the passages cited below show that long after his time druggists predominated here. Later it was noted for its taverns, and in recent years for its eating-houses, but most in their turn have migrated from it, The last of the "wholesale druggists" of Bucklersbury (Messrs. Horner), and one of the oldest houses in the trade, only withdrew in 1878, when the old buildings were sold by auction and cleared away, the site (2580 of square feet) having been let on an eighty years' lease at a ground rent of £1200 per annum. The street seems to be now most "possessed" of solicitors and wine merchants. [See Barge Yard.] It is mervellous that such perfumes should make so sweete savours, if the divell were in them. If one divell be in so little porcion of incense, what a number of divells be there in all the apothecaries shoppes that are in Bucklersbury and elsewhere. -Becon's Works, 1563. [Here is a reference to assafoetida or Devil's dung.] Bucklersbury, a street very well built, and inhabited by tradesmen, especially Drugsters and Furriers.-R. B., in Strype, B. iii. p. 50; B. ii. p. 200. Mrs. Ford. Believe me, there's no such thing in me. Falstaff. What made me love thee? let that persuade thee, there's something extraordinary in thee. Come, I cannot cog, and say thou art this and that, like a many of these lisping hawthorn buds, that come like women in men's apparel and smell like Bucklersbury in simple-time: I cannot; but I love thee, none but thee, and thou deservest it.-Merry Wives of Windsor, Act iii. Sc. 3. Mrs. Tenterhook. Go into Bucklersbury, and fetch me two ounces of preserved melounes (melons); look there be no tobacco taken in the shop when he weighs it. -Westward Ho, 4to, 1607. Mistress Wafer. Run into Bucklersbury, for two ounces of Drageon water, some spermacety and treakle.-Westward Ho, 4to, 1607. Ben Jonson, in his Bartholomew Fair, describing a countryman gazing at the painted signs and lower wonders in London, and naming the things that there was 1 Stow, p. 97. 2 Riley, Memorials, p. xviii. "no getting him away from," says, "I thought he would have run mad o' the black boy in Bucklersbury, that takes the scurvy, roguy tobacca there.-Bart. Fair, Act i. Sc. I. If without these vile arts, it will not sell, Send it to Bucklersbury, there 'twill well. [i.e. to pack up groceries.] Ben Jonson, To my Bookseller, Epigrams, vol. iii. I know most of the plants of my country, and of those about me, yet methinks I do not know so many as when I did but know a hundred and had scarcely ever simpled further that Cheapside.-Sir Thomas Browne, 'Religio Medici" (Works, vol. ii. p. 104). Sir Thomas More was living in this street when he was raised to the Bench, and here his daughter (Margaret Roper) was born. Before which time he had placed himself and his wife in Bucklersbury in London, where he had by her one son and three daughters-in virtue and learning brought up from their youth.-Life of Sir Thomas More, by G. H., 1662, p. 7. John Sadler and Richard Quiney, connections of Shakespeare, were grocers and druggists at the Red Lion, Bucklersbury.-Middlesex Arch. Soc. Trans., vol. iii. p. 578. Bucknall Street, ST. GILES'S. Church Lane, Broad Street, was so renamed in 1878. Budge Row, the east end of Watling Street, City. So called of the Budge fur, and of Skinners dwelling there.-Stow, p. 94. Ay marry, Win, now you look finely indeed. Win, this cap does convince ! You'd not have worn it, Win, nor have had it velvet, but a rough country beaver, with a copper-band, like the coney-skin woman of Budge Row.—Ben Jonson, Bart. Fair, Act i. Sc. 1. O foolishness of men ! that lend their ears To those budge doctors of the Stoic fur.-Milton's Comus. This was of old Bull Inn, ALDGATE, No. 25 on the north side. a great coach, waggon, and posting inn, with a long yard and galleries round it, a great resort of travellers from Essex and the eastern counties generally. The coach office is now a general railway office, and the yard is divided into warehouses and tenements. Bull Inn, BISHopsgate Street WITHIN, No. 93 on the west side, nearly opposite St. Helen's Place,-a very old coach and carriers' office, and posting house and hostelry for travellers from the eastern counties. Old Hobson, the Cambridge University carrier, it will be remembered, hailed from here. 'Twas such a shifter, that if truth were known, Dodged with him betwixt Cambridge and the Bull. Milton, On the University Carrier. This memorable man [Hobson the Carrier] stands drawn in fresco at an Inn (which he used) in Bishopgate, with an hundred pound bag under his arm, with this inscription on the said bag The fruitful mother of an Hundred more. 1 1 Dr. King in his third letter to Lister mentions that "the effigies of that worthy person [Hobson] The Spectator, No. 509. remain still [1709] at the Bull Inn;" but in 1785 Thomas Warton speaks of it as "lately to be seen." |