23 [CAMP NEAR SERPENTINE, HYDE PARK, 1780.] Plate XII.
Watercolour. 19 by 10 in.
Tents near the water. In the foreground a group of figures. To the left a dog is harnessed to a barrow, a man pushing behind.
Paul Sandby published “Views in the Encampments in the Parks,” 1780, for which series this was probably done.
By P. Sandby, R.A., 1780 (1725-1809). Lent by H.M. the King.
Watercolour. 10½ by 7¾ in.
The first theatre on this site (designed by Sir John Vanbrugh) was opened in 1705 and burnt down in 1789. The second building, which is here represented, was begun in 1790, and was enlarged by J. Nash and G. S. Repton in 1816-8.
R. B. Schnebbelie, whose father also practised art, and whose grandfather, a native of Zurich, had been in the Dutch navy, was employed as a draughtsman for many years beginning about 1803, and did much good work for Wilkinson’s “Londina Illustrata”; this is the original of an engraving in that publication. He died about 1849.
By R. B. Schnebbelie, 1819. Lent by H.M. the King.