2-914-034 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Ground-plot of Arundel House and Gardens, (the dark line encloses the premises), 1854. Map of a large house on the Strand, near the River Thames in London, demolished in the 17th century. 'At Arundel-house, according to the parish register of Chelsea, 25th Feb., 1603, died the Countess of Nottingham, after her interview with Queen Elizabeth, to implore forgiveness for having withheld from her Essex's ring... The "Palace of Arundel"...is described by Sully as one of the most commodious houses in London, from its great number of apartments on the same floor; he adds, that the views from the extensive gardens, up and down the river, were remarkably fine. In this reign was restored to the Earldom of Arundel, Thomas Howard, son of Philip...and here he began to assemble the celebrated Arundelian Marbles: the inscribed slabs he inserted in the garden walls, and the statues he placed in the gardens...'. From "Illustrated London News", 1854.