A conversation, candlelight, Bamboccio.
[4]. This picture is supposed to have formerly belonged to the Arundel collection, and from thence came to Henry Duke of Norfolk, from whose steward Mr. Fox, it was bought by Mr. Sykes, who afterwards sold it to the Duke of Devonshire, 1722.
The tradition concerning it was, that King Henry V. received it as a present, about a year before his death, from the famous John Duke of Bedford then Regent of England, and afterwards Regent of France in the reign of Henry VI. The Duke of Bedford bespoke it of John Van Eyck the painter, who invented the art of painting in oil. Thomas a Becket, whose consecration this painting is supposed to represent, was the favourite saint of King Henry V.
The length of this picture is forty-five inches, its breadth twenty-nine, and the height of the principal figure twenty-one and a half.
Devonshire square, Bishopsgate street. Here was formerly a very large and fine house, built by Jasper Fisher, one of the six clerks in Chancery, which on account of his being a man of no great birth or fortune, and much involved in debt, was called in derision, Fisher’s Folly; this house afterwards belonged to the Earl of Oxford, and lastly to the Earl of Devonshire, whose name is still preserved in the street and square built upon its ruins. Maitland.
This is a neat but small square, surrounded with good houses, with rows of trees before them; and adorned in the middle with the statue of Mercury gilt, placed on a pedestal, which is ornamented on each of the four sides with figures in bas relief. This square is inhabited by wealthy merchants.
Devonshire street, 1. Leading from Bishopsgate street to Devonshire square. 2. Queen square, Great Ormond street.
Diamond court, 1. Pearl street. Tite’s alley.
Dice Key lane, Billingsgate, Thames street.
Dice Key passage, Thames street.