2-913-514 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Room in which Sir Robert Peel died, 1850. View of '...the apartment in the mansion at Whitehall-gardens wherein [British prime minister] Sir Robert Peel breathed his last. It will be recollected that upon the lamented Baronet being conveyed to the mansion, immediately after the accident [in which he fell from his horse], he was placed upon a sofa in the nearest apartment (the dining-room). From this apartment Sir Robert was never removed; for so extremely sensitive to pain did he speedily become, that it was only after very considerable difficulty that he could be lifted from the sofa to a hydraulic bed. The mansion is the centre house in the Privy Garden, behind Whitehall. In the apartment...hangs the celebrated picture of John Knox preaching, painted by Wilkie'. Peel owned a house at No. 4 Whitehall Gardens in London. From "Illustrated London News", 1850.