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William Henry Pyne – Palace Interiors

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

Portrait of the Independent Liberal candidate.

View over the Round Pond. After Robert Taylor Pritchett.

St James’s Palace Guard Chamber.

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

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.

The Internal quadrangle

King’s Presence Chamber.

South Front.

Westminster from the roof of Whitehall in 1807.

With Westminster Hall and Abbey.

King’s Great Drawing Room.

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

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.

Panoramic view from the Thames. After Joseph Farington.

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

St.James’s Palace from Cleveland Row.

Queen Mary’s Bed Chamber.

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.

The Throne Room.

Treasury Buildings: From Horse Guards towards Westminster.

Mr. Pitt addressing the House in 1793.

The Admiral’s Gallery.

Interior of the Peers’ Lobby after the 1834 fire.

Lobby of the House. With key to principal figures.

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

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

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

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

The Old Bed Chamber hung with tapestries.

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

The King’s Gate.

With Ecclesiastical Government of Oxford and Cambridge.

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

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

Tower of London: View from the Thames. With decorative border.

View of Victoria Gardens towards Victoria Tower.

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

View from across Horse Guards. Ministry of Defence

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

Double panorama of the palace and its banqueting hall before 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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

View from the ice rink at St James’s Park

Tea on the Terrace.

Old Palace Yard.

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

Hampton Court Cartoon Gallery.

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

The Gothic dining room.

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

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

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

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

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

Conservatory.

Golden Drawing Room, an alcove.

Admiralty and War Department.

Victoria Tower.

West Ante Room.

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

King Charles Street.

Golden Drawing Room.

Vestibule.

‘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.