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William Henry Pyne – Palace Interiors

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With Victoria Tower and Big Ben under construction following the fire of 1834 which destroyed most of the Old Palace of Westminster.

The Old Bed Chamber hung with tapestries.

The Admiral’s Gallery.

The Lower Vestible. The original Henry Holland design has been recently altered, and the original wall replaced with scagliola corinthian columns.

View from across Horse Guards. Ministry of Defence

South Front.

Tea on the Terrace.

Vestibule.

St James’s Palace Guard Chamber.

King Charles Street.

Hustings outside St Paul’s Covent Garden. The 1808 election saw Sir Francis Burdett put forward as a candidate without his knowledge and then pursued for electioneering costs.

Treasury Buildings: From Horse Guards towards Westminster.

Panoramic view from the Thames. After Joseph Farington.

Banqueting Hall. View of the only remaining element of Whitehall Palace which burnt down in 1622.

‘Birth, Behaviour & Business’ Her Majesty’s Opposition. Duke of Rutland, Sir SH Northcote and Sir RA Cross.

The Throne Room.

Queen Mary’s Bed Chamber.

View from the ice rink at St James’s Park

St.James’s Palace from Cleveland Row.

The Internal quadrangle

View of the interior with the Commons and King George II in attendance.

Victoria Tower.

Banqueting House. View of the only surviving part of the palace after the fire in 1698

Golden Drawing Room, an alcove.

Double panorama of the palace and its banqueting hall before the fire of 1698.

Banqueting House. Designed by Inigo Jones and the only part of the palace to survive the fire of 1698.

The Queen returning. Caroline of Brunswick was never crowned Queen as George IV, unsuccessful in divorcing her, barred her from the coronation.

Hampton Court Cartoon Gallery.

Board of Trade, Whitehall from Downing Street. Showing Sir John Soane’s offices, the Banqueting House and the spire of St Martin in the Fields.

Formerly of the Palace of Whitehall, the Ministry of Defence is headquartered here.

Dining room with Ionic columns looking towards the west end conservatory.

At the Bar. Members of the House of Lords and the public are not allowed beyond the bar when the House is sitting.

Buckingham Palace from St James’s Park. Showing the south walls of Buckingham Palace and Marble Arch.

(Elizabeth Tower). View of the new clock tower and Houses of Parliament following the fire of 1834.

Interior of the Peers’ Lobby after the 1834 fire.

With Westminster Hall and Abbey.

‘Babble, Birth and Brummagem’. Treasury Bench. William Gladstone, Duke of Devonshire and Joseph Chamberlain.

Conservatory.

North-west view. Designed by Inigo Jones, the Palace was the residence of the monarch from 1530 until 1698 when all but the Banqueting House was destroyed by fire.

Gallery of the Staircase. The gallery circumscribes the staircase on the chamber floor, with marble busts and Termini lamps.

Old Palace Yard.

New Extended Front by Edward Blore completed in 1850. After J. B. Marchant

West Ante Room.

Golden Drawing Room.

Mr. Pitt addressing the House in 1793.

Set of six. Prince of Wales (Charles II), Duke of Buckingham, Earl of Arundel, a Marquis, a Viscount and a Knight of the Garter.

Banqueting House. The only surviving part of the palace of Whitehall following the fire of 1698.

View over the Round Pond. After Robert Taylor Pritchett.

With Ecclesiastical Government of Oxford and Cambridge.

King’s Writing Closet with a painting by Bougdane over the chimney piece and a mirror reflecting other chambers.

King’s Presence Chamber.

Horse and Foot Guards East Facade. Destroyed in the fire of 1698 and replaced by Royal Horseguards.

King’s Great Drawing Room.

Portrait of the Independent Liberal candidate.

View of Victoria Gardens towards Victoria Tower.

View of the Government Buildings. After John O’Conner.

Taking a Division in the House of Commons. The Tellers at the Table.

PAIR Upper and Lower House of England: William III presides in the House Commons, with a smaller sketch of the House of Lords above. On the walls hang the famous Hendrick Vroom Arrmada Tapestries commissioned by Lord Admiral Howard. They were destroyed in the fire of 1834.

View of the palace of Whitehall from the Thames. Based on a view prior to the fire of 1698.

The Gothic dining room.

Back to Politics. The Autumn Campaign. After the satirist David Wilson.

Lobby of the House. With key to principal figures.

The King’s Gate.

PAIR Reception of HRH the Prince of Orange on entering London shown with a pre-Great Fire of 1666 skyline.: De Hoogh,, a great propogandist of William III, used the sketches of his draughtsman Hekhuisan as the raw material for this view.

View of the New Home and Colonial Offices, Parliament Street.

Sketch showing the preparation for the coronation King George V and Queen Mary. After the satirist David Wilson.

Admiralty and War Department.

‘Purse, Pussy, Piety and Prevarication’. Lords Northbrook, Granville, Selborne and Salisbury: First Lord of the Admiralty, Foreign Secretary, Lord Chancellor and the future Prime Minister.