33 [CHURCH OF ST. PETER LE POOR, OLD BROAD STREET.] Plate XIV.
Watercolour. 13½ by 17½ in.
This is the old church of St. Peter Le Poor on the west side of Old Broad Street, which in Stow’s opinion may have been so called because it was “sometime peradventure a poor parish.” It escaped the Great Fire, but traffic increasing, as it needed repair and projected into the street, it was pulled down in 1788 and rebuilt farther back. The second church, an indifferent piece of architecture, has been destroyed under the Union of Benefices Act within the last few years.
Lent by Sir E. Coates.
34 [VIEW FROM THE CHURCHYARD OF ST. MARTIN’S-IN-THE-FIELDS.] Plate XV.
Watercolour. 13¼ by 19½ in.
In “Notes on Prout and Hunt” by Ruskin for an exhibition in 1879-80, he says: “Hunt learned his business not in spots but in lines. Compare the sketch of the river-side, No. 124, which is as powerful in lines as Rembrandt, and the St. Martin’s Church, No. 123, which is like a bit of Hogarth.” The view is along the colonnaded west front of the church, and up St. Martin’s Lane, of which the part here shown no longer exists. The bit of churchyard with tombstones disappeared on the formation of Duncannon Street.
By W. Hunt (1790-1864). Lent by Mr. T. Girtin.
35 [ENCAMPMENT IN THE GROUNDS OF MONTAGUE HOUSE.] Plate XVI.
Watercolour. 26½ by 19½ in.