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PICTURES OF

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MCMXIX : 'THE STUDIO,' LTD. LONDON, PARIS ^ NEW YORK

An Library

CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOURS

The Bank Crossing. Drawing by Cecil King

Rotherhithe. Drawing by Cecil King

Rough Weather. Painting by Emile Claus

Waterloo Bridge— A Rainy Day. Painting by Emile Claus Leicester Square— March Sunshine. Painting by Emile Claus . Trafalgar Square—" King Charles's Day." Painting by Arthur Hacker,

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Westminster Abbey. Henry VH's Chapel—" Banners of the Bath."

Drawing by Cecil King ........

Spring in Hyde Park. Painting by Alice Fanner . . . .

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ILLUSTRATIONS IN MONOTONE

London from Greenwich. Drawing by Anthony R. Barker

Snow on the Roofs. Painting by Emile Claus ....

The Tower of London from Battle Bridge Stairs. Etching by William

Monk, R.E. . .

Tower Bridge. Drawing by George Clausen, R.A., R.W.S.

Tower Bridge from Old Swan Pier. Drawing by Albert Chanler

The Monument. Etching by Stanley Anderson, A. R.E.

The Thames from the Monument. Etching by Edgar Wilson

The Guildhall. Etching by William Monk, R.E.

St. John's Gate, Clerkenvvell. Etching by William Monk. R.E. .

St. Paul's Cathedral. Drawing by Tony Grubhofer .

St. Paul's Cathedral. The Reredos. Drawing by Albert Chanler

Waterloo Bridge. Etching by Percy Robertson, R.E.

A Morning in May. Painting by Emile Claus ....

Cloth Fair. Drawing by P. Noel Boxer .....

Fleet Street. Drawing by Albert Chanler ....

Temple Church. Drawing by J. W. Archer, R.L

Staple Inn, Holborn. Etching by Percy Robertson, R.E.

The Strand from Wellington Street. Drawing by Frank L. Emanuel

The Victoria Embankment. Drawing by P. Noel Boxer .

Charing Cross. Lithograph by J. Kerr Lawson

Trafalgar Square " Nelson Day." Drawing by Cecil King

The Horse Guards. Lithograph by G. M. Ellwood

Westminster from County Hall. Drawing by Cecil King .

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The Clock Tower, Westminster. Drawing by Yoshio Markino Westminster Abbey. Looking from the South Ambulatory, showing

the Shrine of Henry V. Drawing by A. E. Newcombc Westminster Abbey. Entrance to Chapel of St. Erasmus. Drawing by

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Westminster Abbey. Edward the Confessor's Chapel, showing Tombs

of Henry HI (left) and Eleanor of Castile (centre). Drawiirg by

A. E. Newcombe .........

Regent Street and Piccadilly Circus at Night. Drawing bv William

T. Wood, R.W.S. . '

Piccadilly Circus. Drawing by Cecil King St. James's Palace. Etching by William Walker, A.R.E. St. James's Palace. Drawing by Tony Grubhofer Buckingham Palace. Etching by Percy Robertson. R.E.

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