Watercolour. 8 by 5½ in.
From rather a more western point of view than the wash drawing. Mr. Gardner has ascribed this to “Tompkins.” It must be the work of Charles Tomkins, a topographical artist to whom we have already referred.
By C. Tomkins (1757-1810). Lent by Sir E. Coates.
100a UNDERCROFT OF CHAPEL OF ELY HOUSE, HOLBORN.
Wash drawing. 4 by 5¼ in.
This curious crypt of the Chapel dedicated to St. Etheldreda, Ely Place, still remains.
By J. Carter, 1776 (1748-1817). Lent by Sir E. Coates.
100b [ELY PLACE, HOLBORN.] Plate XLIV.
Pen and Indian ink, with a little colour. 15 by 9½ in.
Ely Place was the town mansion of the Bishops of Ely, dating apparently from the time of John de Kirkeby, Bishop, who died 1290. John of Gaunt died here. Sir Christopher Hatton got hold of part of the garden, and built himself a house there, hence Hatton Garden. In 1772 the see transferred to the Crown all its rights to Ely Place, a house being built as an episcopal residence, now 37 Dover Street, Piccadilly. The buildings, excepting St. Etheldreda’s Chapel, were afterwards taken down. The Chapel, a fine piece of fourteenth-century architecture, belongs to Roman Catholics.